Obit: Smith, Bill (1904 – 1976)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Smith, Keskimaki, Brown, Schultz, Balthazar, Netto, Kolbeck, Beebe

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 08 Dec 1976

Smith, Bill (17 Apr 1904 – Nov 1976)

Funeral services were held at the First Methodist Church at Manawa Wednesday for Bill Smith, a former area resident.

Mr. Smith was born on April 17, 1904 to Mr. and Mrs. William Smith Sr. in the Town of Hoard. He received his education in the local school.

May of 1927 he was married to the former Gertrude Keskimaki of rural Owen. She survives.

They farmed the home farm in the Town of Hoard for several years, then operated the Nightingale Tavern, also a tavern in Withee, and also owned and operated the Trading Post in Owen.

He is survived by a son, Kenneth, Ogdensburg; two daughters, Mrs. (Jean) Byron Brown, Modesto, California, and Mrs. (Virginia) Schultz, Shawano; 10 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Tina Balthazar, Mrs. Della Netto and Mrs. Evelyn Kolbeck, all of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Victor Beebe, Loveland, Colorado, and three brothers, Frank, Owen, Raymond, Big Bend, and Eldon, Marshfield.