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Obituary- Smith, William L. 1

William L. Smith, Sr.
William L. Smith, Sr., 76, Rossville, died Sunday, June 8, 1997, at the Rossville Valley Manor.

He was born February 9,1921, in Topeka, the son of Walter and Martha Bearce Smith, and had lived in Rossville many years.

Bill grew up in Topeka, and was graduated from Topeka High School in 1938. He served in the Army Air Corps. He was a Western Union Delivery boy, and had been a bus driver in Topeka for several years. He moved to Rossville in 1951. He had been a production foreman at Goodyear in Topeka, retiring in 1979. He was the mayor of Rossville for 14 years, and had served several years on the City Council. He was a member of the Rossville Christian Church. He was a past member of the Masonic Lodge, a member of Jimmie Lillard Post No. 31 of the American Legion at Rossville, and a member of the Rossville Lions Club.

On May 2, 1942, he was married to Alice Waldo, in Topeka. She survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Jeanette Vogel and Mary Kelly, both of Topeka; four sons, William Smith, Jr., Napanee, Ontario, Canada, Walter Smith, Mayetta, Stuart Smith, Topeka, and Kenneth Smith, Emmett; three sisters, Geneva Durkin, Dover, Virginia Hamm, Wichita, and Juanita McCall, Topeka; one brother, Charles Smith, in California; 16 grandchildren; and 17 great-grand¬children.

The family received friends at
the Rossville Christian Church Monday. His service was at 10:00 Tuesday (this morning) at the Rossville Christian Church. Burial was in the Rossville Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Northeast Kansas Parkinson Disease Foundation, P.O. Box 251, Topeka 66601; or sent in care of Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys.

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