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Roy
Clinton Smith, 77, of Greenleaf, died Tuesday, June 18, 1996,
at a Caldwell hospital of natural causes. Graveside
services will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 22, 1996, at
the Greenleaf Cemetery. Don Hardenbrook, Associate
Pastor of the Oregon Trail Church of God will officiate.
Services are under the direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel,
Caldwell.
Mr. Smith was born August 1,
1918, at Trousdale, Oklahoma, to Newton E. and Mary L. Price
Smith. He was raised and educated in Oklahoma and
married Barbara Bailey September 4, 1938. He served in
the U.S. Army for nine years from 1936 to 1945, serving in the
Philippines and Okinawa.
After his
honorable discharge from the Army they moved to California
where they operated and owned a swimming pool business for
nearly forty years. Mr. Smith retired in 1983 and they
moved to Greenleaf where they had since resided.
Mr. Smith was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose in Torrence,
California, where he was the Diamond Award Governor.
Surviving are his wife of 58 years, Barbara of Greenleaf; a
daughter, Chelle of Dayton, Nevada; three sons, Jim of Grants
Pass, Oregon, Richard of San Jose, California, and Gerald of
Westminster, California; 15 grandchildren; 17 great-grand-
children a brother, Cecil of Hemet, California; and a sister,
Ola Law San Juan Capistrano.
He was
preceded in death by seven brothers d sisters. |
