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Obituary- Smith, Vernon

Vernon Z. Smith
EUFAULA, Okla. – Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Mills Funeral Home, McAlester, Okla., for Vernon Z. Smith, 64, Eufaula, formerly of Topeka, who died Saturday, Feb. 25, at a Muskogee Okla., hospital. He had pneumonia.

Mr. Smith was a heavy equipment operator, foreman and supervisor of construction projects including the Kansas Turnpike, Tuttle Creek Dam, the DuPont plant at Topeka, the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City, Mo. and the Eufaula Dam and Lake project at Eufaula.

He was born May 2, 1919, at Osawatomie, the son of Walter Z. and Martha E. Bearce Smith. He moved to Topeka in 1920.

He had been a member of Hoisting Engineers Union Local 101 and Oakland United Methodist Church, both in Topeka. Mr. Smith was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of Scottish Rite bodies.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Anne Smith, at home; two sons, William Z. Smith, McAlester, Okla., and Louis L. Smith, Paxico; three daughters, Ruby McGonigle, Philadelphia, Pa., Nova McAllister, Topeka, and Wilma Draper, Millsboro, Del.; two brothers, William L. Smith, Rossville, and Charles L. “Jack” Smith, Fallbrook, Calif.; three sisters, Juanita McCall, Topeka, Virginia Ham, Wichita, and Geneva Durkin, Maple Hill; 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Burial will be in Palestine Cemetery, Quinton, Okla. Memorial contributions may be made to the Polycythemia Research Program University of Kansas Medical Center, Rainbow Blvd. at 39th, Kansas City, Kan.