Joseph Smith
Joseph Alston Smith Passes Away Here Wednesday 1965
Joseph Alston Smith, 82, of 905 Wilcox Street, passed away at 1:10 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in Colonial Manor, following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Church of the Nazarene, of which he was a member, conducted by Rev. W. O. Johnson, with burial in Pecan Grove Cemetery. Crouch-Moore Funeral Home has charge of arrangements and nephews are pallbearers. He was a retired furniture repairman. Burial will be in Pecan Grove Cemetery in McKinney.
He was born October 2, 1883, in Macon, Ga., the son of William A. and Mary Elizabeth Laird Smith. He married Daisy Lee Ashmore at Merit, September 1, 1905. His wife died November 11, this year.
Surviving are four daughters, Miss Fay Smith, McKinney; Mrs. Margaret Davis, Houston; Mrs. Era Mugg, Wynnwood, Okla; Mrs. Edna Frederick, Dallas; one son J. A. Smith Jr., Indio, Calif; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Warren and Mrs. Maudie Musser of Dallas; eleven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Two brothers O. J. and Alvin Smith, both of Oklahoma
Joseph Alston Smith, 82, of 905 Wilcox Street, passed away at 1:10 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in Colonial Manor, following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Church of the Nazarene, of which he was a member, conducted by Rev. W. O. Johnson, with burial in Pecan Grove Cemetery. Crouch-Moore Funeral Home has charge of arrangements and nephews are pallbearers. He was a retired furniture repairman. Burial will be in Pecan Grove Cemetery in McKinney.
He was born October 2, 1883, in Macon, Ga., the son of William A. and Mary Elizabeth Laird Smith. He married Daisy Lee Ashmore at Merit, September 1, 1905. His wife died November 11, this year.
Surviving are four daughters, Miss Fay Smith, McKinney; Mrs. Margaret Davis, Houston; Mrs. Era Mugg, Wynnwood, Okla; Mrs. Edna Frederick, Dallas; one son J. A. Smith Jr., Indio, Calif; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Warren and Mrs. Maudie Musser of Dallas; eleven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Two brothers O. J. and Alvin Smith, both of Oklahoma
