The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

phases of church work, particularly as a Sunday School teacher in the primary department. She
was employed for many years here as a bank clerk.
Surviving are several nieces and nephews as well as great-great-nieces and nephews.
The body has been removed to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. Arrangements
are incomplete.
Arthur V. Smith
Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna for
Arthur V. SMITH, 77, retired Kewanna businessman who died Thursday noon in Woodlawn
hospital here.
The Rev. Charles W. COOK will officiate and burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F.
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Mr. Smith was born in Kewanna June 28, 1881, the son of Joseph and Florence BURNS
SMITH. He was a member of the Reformed church. His wife, Elba [SMITH], died June 2, 1957.
Surviving are a son, Carl [SMITH], Kewanna; one grandson and one sister, Mrs. Alpha
HOESEL, Monterey.
Thomas S. Perdue
Thomas S. “Dad” PERDUE, 80, a former resident of Rochester, died at 8:25 a.m.
Thursday at the home of a son in Arkansas. Mr. Perdue had been ill three years. He leaves 106
descendants.
He was born Nov. 16, 1869, in Roanoke county, Va. While residing in Rochester, Mr.
Perdue made his home with a son, Henry [PERDUE], 500 East 14th street.
Among other survivors are two sons, Walter [PERDUE], Roanoke, Va., and Wilson
[PERDUE], Roland, Ark.; two daughters, Anna [PERDUE], Roland, Ark., and Velma [PERDUE],
who lives in Texas; forty-one grandchildren and sixty great-grandchildren.
Mr. Perdue’s wife died in 1933, and two sons also preceded him in death. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry PERDUE had visited him in Arkansas two weeks ago.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday and burial will take place in Roland, Ark.
Oliver E. Ferree
Oliver E. FERREE, 77, a native of Rochester, died Thursday at his home in Santa
Monica, Cal., after an illness of two months.
Mr. Ferree, a retired railroadman, was born Aug. 23, 1881. He was a member of the
Rochester Christian church, Rochester Chapter No. 90, Royal Arch Masons and Rochester Lodge
No. 79 of the Masons.
Mr. Ferree had moved from Rochester to California about 10 years ago, following his
retirement. His widow is among the survivors. Funeral services will be conducted in Santa
Monica Tuesday.