Obit: Smart, Charles F. (1896 – 1973)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Smart, Scott, Fuller, Reckner, Wurthman, Nehring, Loughead

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 05 Apr 1973

Smart, Charles F. (18 Sep 1896 – 02 Apr 1973)

Funeral services will be held today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. at the Methodist Church in Colby for Charles F. Smart, 76, Colby, who died Monday afternoon at Wausau Hospital North, where he had been a patient the past three weeks.

The Rev. Bervie Scott will officiate, with burial in the Colby Memorial Cemetery. Lulloff Funeral Home, Colby, is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Smart was born in the town of Hull in Marathon County on September 18, 1896, and received his education in Colby schools. On June 15, 1932 he married Mary Fuller, who preceded him in death in 1955.

He was a school board irector of the Lone Pine School. Mr. Smart farmed his entire life in the town of Hull.

Survivors include a son, Grant Smart, Wausau, and a daughter, Mrs. Merten (Mary Belle) Reckner, Spencer; six grandchildren; a brother, Ben, Milwaukee, and three sisters, Mrs. Walter (Edith) Wurthman, Wausau; Mrs. Mike (Evelyn) Nehring, Rothschild, and Mrs. Ruth Loughead, Abbotsford.

Besides his wife, an infant daughter, a sister and a brother preceded him in death.