1940-41 American Legion Commander
Dr. Arthur became ill while at his summer cottage on West Okoboji Lake last Thursday and died some hours later in the Spirit Lake Hospital, August 31, 1967.
Military honors were carried out by the color guards of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts of Manning at the Manning Cemetery.
A large number attended the last rites for the veteran physician who was widely known. From Alton, G.E. Bowers and David Hentges, from Le Mars, Miss Vicki Dreckman, and from Milford, O.N. Homan, attended the funeral.
Dr. Smith is survived by his widow, Isabelle (Edmundson) by one son Arden of Omaha and by one daughter, Zita, Mrs. Pat Sullivan of Everly; two Sisters the former Anna May and Alice Smith, who are nuns who teach in St. Paul, Minnesota, also survive.
Dr. Arthur's elder brother, the late Dr. Millard Smith, died a number of years ago while hunting in the mountains in the southwest, and a sister, Miss Olga, died in a car crash near Spirit Lake in 1962.
His parents, Ferdinand and Anna (Hodgetts) Smith, sister, Olga, and Mary "Zita," a sister who died in early childhood, are buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Alton.