Submitted by: Dan Rich

Hubert Brown Smith

May 3, 1925 - July 18, 1998

South Bend Tribune 7/20/1998

Hubert Brown Smith, 73, of 34th Street, South Bend, Ind., passed away at 1:38 p.m. on Saturday, July 18, at Cardinal Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, South Bend. He worked for the Studebaker Corporation and then retired in 1992 from the Bendix Corporation. Born on May 3, 1925, in Frankfort, Ind., to the late Homer and Zelda (Brown) Smith, he had lived in the South Bend area most of his life.

He married on Aug. 19, 1978, in South Bend, to Cele Kaplan, who survives. He is also survived by a son, David E. Smith of Elkhart, Ind.; three grandchildren, Shane, Stephanie and Morgan; two sisters, Phyllis Brooks of Indianapolis, Ind., and Mildred Scott of Frankfort, Ind.; and by six brothers, Eugene Smith of Indiana, Herbert Smith of California, Royce Smith of Delphi, Ind., Kenny Smith of Indiana, Cletus Smith and Richard Smith of Texas.

ervices will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 21, at the Palmer Funeral Home, South Bend. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery, Mishawaka, Ind. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Hubert was a World War II Navy veteran stationed at Omaha Beach, a member of the American Legion River Park Post 303, and a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 360, Mishawaka, which will perform military services at the committal service in the cemetery.