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Rosary for M. Clair Smith, 81, of Nampa,
who died Wednesday,
March 4,
at home of natural causes, will be recited at 8
p.m. Sunday at
the Alsip Funeral Chapel,
Nampa.
Mass of Christian
burial will be celebrated at 10:30
a.m. Monday at
St. Paul's Catholic Church,
Nampa, by Fr. Merle J. Fisher, S.M. Burial will
follow at the Mount Calvary
Cemetery.
Mr. Smith was born
June 23, 1905, at Sioux City, Iowa,
to Simon and Ellen O'Leary Smith. As a young child, he lived
in Flandreau and Piedmont, S.D.
They moved in 1919 to Rapid City, S.D., where he was reared and attended schools, including
the School
of Mines and Technology. He graduated as a
mining engineer in 1929.
He worked at the
Homestake gold-mine in Lead, S.D., from 1930 to 1941. He then
went to work for the U.S. Bureau of Mines as an engineer.
He married Barbara
Bertolotto April 4, 1935, in Lead. They lived and worked in
South Dakota,
Colorado, Arizona,
Nevada and
several other states.
He retired in 1974
and they moved to a farm in Vale, S.D. They came in September
1986 to Nampa where they had since resided.
He was a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church.
He is survived by
his wife of Nampa; three sons and two daughters-in-law, James
Smith of Renton, Wash., Vincent and Karen Smith of Auburn,
Wash., and Larry and Vicki Smith of Ogden, Utah; two
daughters, Louise Elion and Kathryn (Mrs. Rodney) Stark, both
of Nampa; 16 grandchildren; a brother, Robert Smith of
Washington, D.C.; 11 great-grandchildren; and several nieces
and nephews.
He was preceded in
death by two brothers, Ray and David, and three grandchildren.
Memorials may be
made to a fund established in his name, in care of Mrs.
Barbara Smith, 541 Greenleaf, Nampa 83651.
Friends may call at
the Nampa Alsip chapel Saturday and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. |
