Submitted by Melva L. Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
February 16, 1961 - Thursday, pg 2 col 4
MARY ETHEL (Kurtz) SMITH
Mrs. Ross Smith Of Prophetstown Dies
Prophetstown: - Mrs. Ross (Mary) Smith, 63, passed away suddenly Wednesday evening at her home in Prophetstown.
The body rests at the Gardner Funeral Chapel where visitation begins Friday afternoon. Funeral rites will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the chapel with the Rev. William Nicoll of the First Methodist Church officiating. The burial will take place in Riverside Cemetery, Prophetstown.
Mary Ethel Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Kurtz, was born July 26, 1897, in Albany, Ill. She was educated in the Albany schools and was united in marriage with Ross Smith of Cordova in 1917 in East Moline. They had made their home in the Erie and Prophetstown communities since their marriage. Mr. Smith passed away in 1958.
Since 1932, Mrs. Smith had been a resident of Prophetstown and for the past 11 years had occupied her late home. She was a member of the Prophetstown Methodist Church.
The survivors are three sons and two daughters, Jack of Kewanee; Harley, A. Robert and Mrs. Juanita Brooks of Prophetstown, and Mrs. Geraldine Sibley of Freeport. Also surviving are three brothers and six sisters, Charles and Mike Kurtz of Bellmont, Ia.; William Kurtz of Garner, Ia.; Mrs. Roy Best of Mason City, Ia.; Mrs. Aaron Grimes of Bellmount, Ia.; Mrs. William Skalnick and Mrs. Fritz Zisser of Chicago and Mrs. Alfred Larson and Mrs. Clarence Lenning of Clear Lake, Ia.
Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by her husband, one son in infancy and one sister.
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