Name: Smith, Arlene Thelma (Heldt)
Burial Date: 1999, 02/02
Age at Death: 77
Plot Location: 926 A
Notes: Wife of Fred Gerald


Arlene T. Smith
Arlene T. Smith, a Sterling resident for 50 years, died Saturday, Jan. 30, 1999, at Lyons Good Samaritan Center at the age of 77.
She was born May 22, 1921, at Orleans, NE, the daughter of August and Lily May Cunningham Heldt. She was a retired certified medication aid at Sterling Presbyterian Manor.
She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and Silver Threads, Sterling, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Lyons.
On Oct. 3, 1946, she married Fred G. Smith at Phillipsburg.
Survivors include her husband; four sons, Michael, South Hutchinson; Rodney, Jonesboro, Ark.; Robert, Hutchinson; and Timothy, Salina; five daughters, Geraldine Elliot, Hutchinson; Paula Capps, St. Joseph, MO; Linda Stover, Sterling, Connie Hess, Madison; and Cynthia Morales, Lyons; a sister, Margaret Siegrist, Salina; 23 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son Dennis, two brothers, Lloyd Lee and Marvin Dale; a sister, Mildred Abbott; and two grandsons.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Silin Funeral Home, Sterling, with the Rev. Doug Neumann officiating. Burial was in Sterling Community Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to the American Heart Association in care of the funeral home.