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Show jrominent church leader dies; pices Saturday, 12th Ward " " " ' -" . r V ; Claude Allan Smith, 71, former for-mer member of Kolob Stake Presidency and local business man, died Wednesday shortly after noon at the Utah Valley Hospital following a long illness. ill-ness. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in First-Twelfth First-Twelfth Ward Chapel, under the direction of Bishop Don Watts of the Twelfth Ward. Friends and relatives may call at the Wheeler Mortuary Friday Fri-day evening from 6 to 8 and Saturday prior to the services. Burial will be in the Springville Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Smith was born January 11, 1897, in Salt Lake City, the third of seven children of Herbert James and Susan Bean Smith. When one year old he moved with his parents to Thistle for two years before returning to Sorinsrville. His earlv school- Iwmm .1 aamiMiiimi in in hnde Allan Smith, who died ' fedncsday, and whose serv-w serv-w will be held Saturday. ing was obtained in the local schools. He later attended LDS Business College in Salt Lake City. At 14 years of age he drove the passenger and mail hack for Erastus Thorn here. This he did after school hours and during the summer. He also worked for Deal Brothers and Mcndenhall Co. as delivery boy and later for H. T. Reynolds Rey-nolds and Co. for delivery and clerking work. He was a member mem-ber of the Springville Fire Department De-partment and won the ladder-climbing ladder-climbing contest which set a new state record at that time. At the time of the Mexican border trouble with Pancho Villa in 1316 he was the first volunteer from ' Springville to sign up. He was released from border duty in February 1917 and went into military service again during World War I. He served in France in the horse servcu in ritwu. ui ,..1 i.ww artillery. He served as second lieutenant. He completed his preliminary training and returned re-turned home and married Melva Sanford January 16, 1918, in Salt Lake LDS Temple, prior to going over seas. After leaving the service he worked for Utah Wholesale Grocery Co., was a chemist for the Springville-Mapleton Sugar Company, a traffic and transportation trans-portation clerk for the Continental Conti-nental Oil Company and was bookkeeper and salesman for the Cudahy Packing Company. He retired from the latter position po-sition January, 1962, after 26 years with the company. His service in the church included in-cluded being a Scoutmaster in the First Ward and the Salt Lake 12-13 Waxd. He was a member of the first Boy Scout patrol formed in Springville and was its first leader. He was coordinator to the Aaronic Prieshood in the Salt Lake ward and served as elder's quorum secretary and one of the presidents of Seventy m that ward. Upon moving to Holladay, he was sustained secretary sec-retary to the quorum of Seventy Sev-enty in the Winder Ward and later as one of the presidents. He served as secretary ana counselor in the high priest quorum of B'g Cottonwood Stake which position he held until moving to Springville again. He served as counselor in the Springville Second Ward Bishopric and later served as alternate member of the high council in Kolob Stake, then subsequently high councilor and in October, 1956, was chosen to serve with Ernest A. Strong Jr., as counselor in the newly-(Cont. newly-(Cont. on back page, col. 7) Services Saturday for Claude A. Smith (Cont. from Page One) formed Kolob Stake presidency. He held this position until 1965. He also was manager of the Missionary Book Store here. During his earlier years he was active in dramatics in the ward and stake and participated partici-pated in plays and special programs pro-grams in a dramatic role as well as doing considerable public pub-lic speaking. Surviving besides his wife are the following brothers and sisters: Herbert W. Smith, Ogden; Viola S. Wing, Provo; Beatrice Smith. Tom and Fred Smith all of Springville. |