Smith, Fred Gerald

Name: Smith, Fred Gerald
Burial Date: 2001, 02/13
Age at Death: 88
Plot Location: 926 C
Notes: Husband of Thelma Arlene(Heldt)

Purple Heart, PFC US Army Signal Corps
War: WW2

Hutchinson News obituary

Sterling – Fred Gerald Smith, 88, died Feb. 10, 2001, at Hutchinson Hospital.  He was born Nov. 24, 1912, at Central City, Neb., the son of Fred Al and Josie Wells Smith. A Sterling resident for 51 years, he was a retired oil field worker.

He belonged to Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lyons, and was a U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran of WWII receiving the Purple Heart. On Oct 3, 1946, he married Arlene T. Heldt at Phillipsburg. She died Jan. 30, 1999.

Survivors include: four sons, Michael and Robert, both of South Hutchinson, Rodney, Jonesboro, Ark., and Tim, Sterling: five daughters, Geraline Elliot, Hutchinson, Paula Capps, St. Joseph, MO, Linda Stover, Sterling, Connie Hess, Madison, and Cynthia Morales, Lyons; a sister Edna Sallee, St. Louis, 23 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Dennis; five brothers; five sisters; two grandsons; and a great-granddaughter.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sillin Funeral Home, Sterling, with the rev. J. Douglas Neumann presiding. Friends may call from 2 to 7 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to service time Tuesday, both at the funeral home. Burial will be in Sterling Community Cemetery, with full military honors by Fort Riley Honor Guard.

Memorials may be sent to the American Lung Association, in care of the funeral home.

 

Birth: 1912
Death: 2001

Age 88

 

Purple Heart, PFCUS Army Signal Corps
Veteran of:  World War II

Family links:
Spouse:
Arlene Thelma Heldt Smith (1921 – 1999)

Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 926 C
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