The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Dot G. Smith
Dec. 24, 1904 - Feb. 18, 1996
Dot G. SMITH, 91, former resident on Barrett Road, Lake Manitou, died at 7:30 a.m.
Sunday at Rochester Health Care Center, where she had resided since May 8, 1987.
She was born in Kokomo to Earl and Maude LOWLETT SALLEE. On March 11, 1926,
in Kokomo, she married Victor L. SMITH, who died on Dec. 18, 1960. She had been a resident of
Rocheser for many years, having come from Lake Bruce, and prior to that, Kokomo. She was a
bookkeeper and office manager for the late Dr. D.K. STINSON for many years. She was a
member of the Trinity United Methodist Church and Order of the Eastern Star Chapter No. 70,
both of Rochester; and the Kewanna Mothers Club.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Larry (Carol) OLMSTEAD, Wabash; two
grandchildren, Beth OLMSTEAD, Philadelphia, Pa.; ad David OLMSTEAD, Greencastle; and
one great-grandson, Joe OLMSTEAD, Greencastle. Preceding in death was one brother, Frank
SALLEE.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Foster & Good Funeral Home, Rochester.
Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home one hour
before services.
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Tuesday, February 20, 1996
Wednesday, February 21, 1996
Dora L. Chism Smoker
May 29, 1920 - Feb. 19, 1996
Dora Louise CHISM SMOKER, 75, 478 Ferry St., Wabash, died at 1:04 a.m. Monday at
Wabash County Hospital.
She was born in Greenburg to Sherman F. and Etta Mae MARTIN LANE. On April 20,
1938, she married Kelsie H. CHISM, who died on Dec. 29, 1971. On Nov. 26, 1975, she married
Ernest SMOKER, who survives. She was an employee at Wabash County Hospital, retiring in
May 1985. She was a member of the Santa Fe United Methodist Church and also attended
Wabash First Brethren Church.
Surviving with her husband are one daughter, Nancy HOLLER, Denver; two sons,
Sherman and Dale CHISM, both of Peru; eight step-children, Ernest SMOKER Jr., and Edward
SMOKER, both of Rochester; Richard SMOKER, Lawreceburg, Shelby BREECE, Warsaw,
Phyllis Ann SMITH, Terry SMOKER and Dennis SMOKER, all of Ocala, Fla.; and James
SMOKER, Tacoma, Wash.; ten grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; and fifteen stepgrandchildren.
Preceding in death were one daughter, Mary Etta JEWELL, who died in 1993; two
brothers, Louis and Bill LANE; and one sister, Ruth DONICA.
Services were at 10:30 a.m. today at Laird Funeral Home, Amboy, with the Revs.
Thomas DAUGHERTY and Ron SIDERS officiating. Burial was in the Park Lawn Cemetery.