Obituary: Arthur Lester Smith: Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Oct 2002 ************************************************************************ SMITH, Arthur Lester, Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 26 Dec 1935, p. 5 -- Arthur L. Smith Taken By Death Arthur Lester Smith, residing at 719 South Central, passed away at his home at 7:00 a.m. Wednesday. He was born in Kansas July 14, 1883 and was 52 years of age. He came to Oregon with his parents 35 years ago and has resided at Medford since that time during all of which he was followed the cement contracting business and foreman for the city in that work. In the local order of Eagles, he was a charter member. Besides his wife, May Lucy Smith, he leaves four children, James H. Smith of New York; Lloyd H. of Jacksonville; Mark N. Smith and Beulah of Medford and Frieda Henderson of Roseville, Calif., one brother, Roy Smith and a sister, Belle Stevenson of Prairie City, Oregon. Also two half sisters and a half brother. Funeral services will be conducted at the Conger chapel by the Rev. W. R. Baird at 1:30 Sunday and interment in the Butte Falls cemetery will be under auspices of the local Eagles lodge.