The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

The funeral services will be held from the Val Zimmerman Funeral Parlors at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday with
Rev. E. C. REIDENBACH in charge. Interment will be made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. KROM received word this morning of the death of their son-in-law, G. K.
ALLEWELT of Hartsdale, N.Y. The funeral will be held at his home in Hanover, Pa., Wednesday
afternoon. A. B. KROM of this city has been spending the past two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Allewelt.
Mrs. Allewelt was formerly Miss Mary KROM of this city.
Douglas FORD, aged 75, for many years a resident of Kewanna, died in the Fulton County Home at
7:30 o’clock Sunday morning. He had been in ill health for several years.
The deceased was born in Ohio, but had spent a greater portion of his life in Union township where he
was emp loyed as a laborer.
A half-brother, Hiram FORD, who resides in Detroit, Michigan, survives as does a number of nephews
and nieces.
The body has been moved to the Todd Funeral Home in Kewanna, where friends may pay their
respects. Funeral arrangements had not been completed at the time The News-Sentinel went to press.
Frank Ellsworth SMITH, aged 53, veteran postal employee and prominent church and lodge worker,
died at his home 225 East Fourteenth street, at 6:30 o’clock Sunday morning following a heart attack.
The deceased had suffered with heart trouble for the past five years, but his death was quite
unexpected. Because of his physical condition he had taken a six months leave of absence from the
postoffice on March 15, 1937.
Mr. Smith was a life long resident of Fulton county. He was born on a farm in the Antioch
neighborhood southeast of Rochester on November 16, 1883. His parents were Amos and Tressa
(HAGAN) SMITH.
The deceased had lived in Rochester for the past 29 years, moving to this city from a farm in the
Antioch neighborhood. Mr. Smith had been employed in the postoffice since August 1, 1908.
At that time he was appointed a city mail carrier when such service was inaugurated in this city. At the
time of his death Mr. Smith was the money order and registry clerk in the local postoffice.
Mr. Smith since his residence in this city has been prominent in church, lodge and civic circles. He was
an active member of the Grace Methodist Church and for many years was the superintendent of the Sunday
school.
The deceased was also very active in Odd Fellows lodge work. He had served in all of the important
offices in both the Subordinate and Encampment in Rochester and was District Deputy Grand Patriarch of
the District for several years. Mr. Smith was also a member of the Patriarch’s Militant at Logansport and
Evergreen Rebekah lodge of this city.
Mr. Smith was Past Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows of Indiana and for the
past two years was Past Grand Representative of the Sovereign Grand Lodge at national meetings of the
organization which were held in Atlantic City and New York.
Mr. Smith was also prominent in Masonic Lodge circles. He was a member of the Rochester Masonic
Lodge and Eastern Star Lodge and was serving as Associate Patron at the time of his death in the latter and
was also a Past Worthy Patron.
In a ceremony which was performed in this city on November 18, 1908 he was married to