Clyde William Smith was born Jan. 4, 1926, in Meadville, the son of Mrs. Marian Frances Smith, of Rocky Grove, and the late Clarence W. Smith. He attended Rocky Grove High School and in April, 1943, enlisted in the U.S. Army Field Artillery. He served two and one-half years in the Army during World War II and spent a part of his service overseas, seeing action on the western front in Europe.
He was last employed as a clerk by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Richard Snyder, of Franklin; Ellwood Smith, a student in the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia; Colleen, Keith, Corliss, Patricia, Carol, Jerome, and Lois; all at home.
Funeral services for Clyde W. Smith, of 214 Front Street, Rocky Grove, veteran of World War II, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident in Cleveland, O., last Saturday, were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Buchanan Funeral Home by Rev. Harold L. Loveless, pastor of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church.
During the services, Rev. Loveless read the poems "Sometime" and "There Is No Death."
Burial was in Lupher Chapel Cemetery with the following as pallbearers: David Nestor, Russell McKain, Jack Kightlinger, Robert Graham, Glenn McClelland and Lavern Simanansen.
Groups of war veterans representing the Franklin Post of the American Legion and the Jesse G. Greer Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in command of John E. Graham, paid military honors to the memory of the deceased at the grave. A salute of three volleys was fired over the grave and Lawrence Stadtler sounded "Taps."
Mr. Smith died in the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, O., from injuries received when a new car in which he was riding crashed into a tree on Euclid Avenue. He died a few hours after the accident.
He was last employed as a clerk by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Richard Snyder, of Franklin; Ellwood Smith, a student in the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia; Colleen, Keith, Corliss, Patricia, Carol, Jerome, and Lois; all at home.
Funeral services for Clyde W. Smith, of 214 Front Street, Rocky Grove, veteran of World War II, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident in Cleveland, O., last Saturday, were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Buchanan Funeral Home by Rev. Harold L. Loveless, pastor of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church.
During the services, Rev. Loveless read the poems "Sometime" and "There Is No Death."
Burial was in Lupher Chapel Cemetery with the following as pallbearers: David Nestor, Russell McKain, Jack Kightlinger, Robert Graham, Glenn McClelland and Lavern Simanansen.
Groups of war veterans representing the Franklin Post of the American Legion and the Jesse G. Greer Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in command of John E. Graham, paid military honors to the memory of the deceased at the grave. A salute of three volleys was fired over the grave and Lawrence Stadtler sounded "Taps."
Mr. Smith died in the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, O., from injuries received when a new car in which he was riding crashed into a tree on Euclid Avenue. He died a few hours after the accident.
Clyde William Smith was born Jan. 4, 1926, in Meadville, the son of Mrs. Marian Frances Smith, of Rocky Grove, and the late Clarence W. Smith. He attended Rocky Grove High School and in April, 1943, enlisted in the U.S. Army Field Artillery. He served two and one-half years in the Army during World War II and spent a part of his service overseas, seeing action on the western front in Europe.
He was last employed as a clerk by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Richard Snyder, of Franklin; Ellwood Smith, a student in the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia; Colleen, Keith, Corliss, Patricia, Carol, Jerome, and Lois; all at home.
Funeral services for Clyde W. Smith, of 214 Front Street, Rocky Grove, veteran of World War II, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident in Cleveland, O., last Saturday, were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Buchanan Funeral Home by Rev. Harold L. Loveless, pastor of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church.
During the services, Rev. Loveless read the poems "Sometime" and "There Is No Death."
Burial was in Lupher Chapel Cemetery with the following as pallbearers: David Nestor, Russell McKain, Jack Kightlinger, Robert Graham, Glenn McClelland and Lavern Simanansen.
Groups of war veterans representing the Franklin Post of the American Legion and the Jesse G. Greer Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in command of John E. Graham, paid military honors to the memory of the deceased at the grave. A salute of three volleys was fired over the grave and Lawrence Stadtler sounded "Taps."
Mr. Smith died in the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, O., from injuries received when a new car in which he was riding crashed into a tree on Euclid Avenue. He died a few hours after the accident.
He was last employed as a clerk by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Richard Snyder, of Franklin; Ellwood Smith, a student in the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia; Colleen, Keith, Corliss, Patricia, Carol, Jerome, and Lois; all at home.
Funeral services for Clyde W. Smith, of 214 Front Street, Rocky Grove, veteran of World War II, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident in Cleveland, O., last Saturday, were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Buchanan Funeral Home by Rev. Harold L. Loveless, pastor of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church.
During the services, Rev. Loveless read the poems "Sometime" and "There Is No Death."
Burial was in Lupher Chapel Cemetery with the following as pallbearers: David Nestor, Russell McKain, Jack Kightlinger, Robert Graham, Glenn McClelland and Lavern Simanansen.
Groups of war veterans representing the Franklin Post of the American Legion and the Jesse G. Greer Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in command of John E. Graham, paid military honors to the memory of the deceased at the grave. A salute of three volleys was fired over the grave and Lawrence Stadtler sounded "Taps."
Mr. Smith died in the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, O., from injuries received when a new car in which he was riding crashed into a tree on Euclid Avenue. He died a few hours after the accident.
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