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Obituary- Smick, Kimber 1

K.C. Smick Dies Suddenly

From the Wamego Reporter
Kimber C. Smick, for over 29 years publisher and editor of the Wamego Reporter, died suddenly at his home Monday evening, October 12, 1925, at about 8:20 o'clock.

Mr. Smick spent the day in the office as usual. Of recent years he had not done as much of the mechanical work as previously, but he always insisted upon doing a part of the press-feeding. In the afternoon he took the press for about two and one-half hours, with short intermissions to get the radio reports of the world series game. He was in the best of health and spirits, and discussed for a few minutes the work of the coming week.

On going home he ate a hearty meal, tuned in his radio and then turned on a little more heat in his furnace. He was then stricken with an acute attack of indigestion. A physician was summoned and he was given relief. As he was apparently all right again, the physician left. Shortly after he suffered a severe chill and went to bed. In about ten minutes after he passed away from heart failure, without any struggle or pain. Neighbors and a physician were called--but he had passed away as he had always desired, without a long sickness. His nature was such that he always dreaded being a bother or care to anyone.

Kimber C. Smick was born April 25, 1853, at Saunbury, Westmoreland county, Penn., and at his death was 72 years, 5 months and 17 days old. His mother, who made her home with him after he came to Kansas, died about 27 years ago, his father passing away when Mr. Smick was 15 years old.

At his home in Sunbury, Penn., he learned the printer's trade. He worked at his trade in various places coming to Kansas in 1878. He was employed in Clay Center, Enterprise, Rossville and other Kansas towns.

On October 14, 1880, he was united in marriage with Kate L. Topping, of Rossville, his companion for 45 years and who survives him. They came to Wamego in 1881, Mr. Smick working for J.E. Clardy, one of the original Wamego men, and who started the Kansas Agriculturalist in 1879, of which this paper is the successor.

To this union one child was born, a son, Edward Newton, who met an accidental death in 1900, when in his senior year at high school. This was a blow from which Mr. Smick never recovered. What the loss meant to him, only those who knew him best could fully realize.

Mr. Smick worked in the Wamego printing offices until he leased The Agriculturalist in August 1896, later purchasing the plant.

[From the Rossville Reporter, October 15, 1925]

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