SMITH, Rush

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ September 22 1966, p. 4 Rush Smith Summoned Funeral services were to be held Thursday of this week at the Warner Funeral Home in Spencer, Ia., for Rush Smith, well known former resident of Wickenburg, who passed away Monday afternoon in Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix. He had been in ill health for some time. Mr Smith was born in Spencer May 23, 1893, attended school there and was graduated from Iowa State College at Ames with the class of 1917. He engaged in banking and farming in Iowa and later developed a number of large sub-divisions in the suburban area of Chicago. After several winter visitors to Wickenburg, he moved here in the Fall of 1944, renting the former VK Ranch on the Prescott Highway while building his own home just north of there. While residing here Mr Smith, in association with his son Walter, built the W. S. (Sky) Thurber and Guy Kirsch homes, the latter now known as Brad Price home on the California Highway. The Smiths also built the structure on South Jefferson just beyond Center which was originally an automobile agency and was, for a time recently, a furniture store. Mr Smith was charter member and the first president of the Desert Caballeros and served five terms as president. He was the riding group’s only life member. Mr Smith left Wickenburg a number of years ago for Scottsdale where he had since resided in a home he constructed on East Ocotillo Road. He is survived by two sons, Walter, of Albuquerque, N. M. and Rush, Jr., of Scottsdale, and five grandchildren.