SMITH, Lorena

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona November 3, 1950 Wickenburg Feels Loss in death of Mrs. Lorena Smith The death of Mrs. Lorena Smith in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., last Sunday evening brought sorrow to our community where she had lived for the past six years. She had become one of us, acquiring many friends through her genial, warmhearted personality and her sincere interest in the lives and activities of all of the people of our town. She was a gracious host in the lovely home which she and her husband, Rush Smith, built north of town on the Prescott Highway in the winter of 1945-46. In recent months she gave us all a shining example of great courage and fortitude. Mrs. Smith will be sorely missed in this community to which she first came as a winter visitor in 1940 and as a resident in 1944 when she and Mr. Smith rented the VK Ranch, now the Slash Bar K. She was first taken ill more than a year ago, but following hospitalization and surgery, it was believed she had recovered. This summer, while at the Smith cottage on Lake Okobojl, Iowa, her condition became so grave as to necessitate her removal to the Mayo Clinic an it soon became apparent that she would never again return to Wickenburg. Her death last Sunday was not unexpected. Mrs. Smith was born in Spencer, Ia., attended grade school there, the Frances Schimer in Mt Carroll, Ill., and Wellesly College in Massachusetts, from where she was graduated. She and Mr. Smith were married in Spencer and lived there until the early ‘30’s when they moved to Dundee, Ill. They came to Wickenburg from Dundee. Mrs. Smith helped organize the Wickenburg Chapter of the American Association of University Women and served it s president for two terms. She was a member of the P.E.O. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon of this week in Spencer with burial there. Surviving beside the husband, are two sons, Walter of Wickenburg and Rush, Jr., of Milford, Iowa; two brothers Karl and Randall Tuttle, both of Spencer, and three grandsons, David and Walter Rush, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith and Rush III, son of Mrs. And Mrs. Rush Smith, Jr.