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Elizabeth L. and Orville Z. SMITH

Cherokee Municipal Cemetery


Elizabeth Lucinda Doles Smith
02-1994
Submitted by: Tim Dotterer

The funeral for Elizabeth Lucinda Smith, 81, was at 2 PM Monday at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ron Weathers officiating. Burial was in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery, directed by Goodwin Funeral Home. She died February 5, 1994, at Cherokee Manor.

She was born June 18, 1912, in Monument, Colorado, to Robert and Altha May Schubarth Doles. She attended school in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She married Orville Z. Smith on September 30, 1928, in Kiowa, Kansas. He died September 22, 1992. They lived in Sawyer, Kansas, Medicine Lodge, Kansas, and Kiowa, Kansas, before moving to Cherokee in 1940. They operated a Chevrolet dealership, ran a dairy and farmed. They retired in 1959. She was a member of First United Methodist Church and was a 50 – year member of Order of Eastern Star.

She is survived by one son, Pete, and his wife, Dorothy of Cherokee; three grandchildren, Mike Smith and Cindy Spradling, both of Cherokee, and Lisa Smith of Edmond; four great-grandchildren and a sister, Bonnie Hern of LaVeta, Colorado.

Memorials may be made to Parkinson's Disease research through the funeral home.


Orville Z. Smith
09-1992
Submitted by: Tim Dotterer

The funeral service for Orville Z. Smith, 82, who died September 22, 1992, at Cherokee Manor, was at 10 AM Friday at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bill Smith officiating. Burial was in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery, directed by Goodwin Funeral Home.

Smith was born November 21, 1909, in Sawyer, Kansas, to Zig and Loretta Parsons Smith. He grew up in the Sawyer – Medicine Lodge area. On September 30, 1928, he married Elizabeth Doles in Kiowa, Kansas. The family made their home in Sawyer, Medicine Lodge and Kiowa before moving to Cherokee in 1940.

Smith operated a Chevrolet dealership and farmed until he retired in 1959. He was a member of the Shriners and Corinthian Masonic Lodge 302.

Survivors are his wife; a son, Herbert D. "Pete" Smith of Cherokee; two sisters, Edna Rose of Medicine Lodge and Neva Lukens of Richland, Washington; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.

Memorials may be made to Parkinson's Disease Research Fund through the funeral home.


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