Obit: Smith, Aminta (1880 - 1939)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: SMITH BRAUN HENRICHS

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 1/5/1939

MRS. SMITH, 58, DIES ON WEDNESDAY

LINGERING ILLNESS IS FATAL TO GREENWOOD WOMAN RITES SUNDAY

Greenwood--Mrs. Sam (Aminta) Smith, 58 died at 5 o'clock yesterday evening, Jan. 4, 1939 at her home, 4 miles north of Greenwood, Clark County. She had been in ill health for several years and had been a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield for one week before being taken to her home here on Tuesday.

Funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Smith home and at 2 o'clock at the Grace M.E. Church. The Rev. C.R. Gaylord will officiate at the rites, and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Smith, who was born June 18, 1880, is survived by her husband and two daughters, Mrs. George (Blanche) Braun, Greenwood, and Mrs. Walter (Kate) Henrichs, Milwaukee.

She was a member of the Royal Neighbors of America, Forest Queen Camp, No. 2710 at Greenwood, members of which will attend the funeral for the body.

For the past 45 years the Smiths had resided at their present farm home.