Cedar Rapids Gazette Tuesday Jan. 27, 1959
David Bried Smyth, 99, a retired banker, died here Monday.
Born Feb. 24, 1859, at Marion, the son of William and Mary Brier Smyth, he would have been a 100 next month.
Mr. Smyth's father was a congressman from the old Iowa Second district and also was head of the Oak Shade Cemetery Ass. when the first addition was laid out. Mr Smyth attended the Marion schools, Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, and Grinnell college.
He began work in 1881 at the First National bank, Marion. He was married at Spencer to Mary Pinneo on Nov. 14, 1883. They moved to Kansas in 1890. In 1919 they moved to Wyoming and returned to Kansas in 1928. In 1931 they moved to Nebraska where Mrs. Smyth died Oct. 8, 1933. Mr. Smyth returned to Marion on Oct. 6, 1943, and has lived here since. He joined the old Marion Congregational church in 1876.
Surviving are 2 daughters, Mary E. Fraker, Greeley, Colo., and Heloise Lasnier, Concordia, Kan.
Services are pending arrival of his daughters. Burial will be in Oak Shade cemetery.
A reunion with his daughters was being planned for Mr. Smyth's 100th birthday.
David Bried Smyth, 99, a retired banker, died here Monday.
Born Feb. 24, 1859, at Marion, the son of William and Mary Brier Smyth, he would have been a 100 next month.
Mr. Smyth's father was a congressman from the old Iowa Second district and also was head of the Oak Shade Cemetery Ass. when the first addition was laid out. Mr Smyth attended the Marion schools, Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, and Grinnell college.
He began work in 1881 at the First National bank, Marion. He was married at Spencer to Mary Pinneo on Nov. 14, 1883. They moved to Kansas in 1890. In 1919 they moved to Wyoming and returned to Kansas in 1928. In 1931 they moved to Nebraska where Mrs. Smyth died Oct. 8, 1933. Mr. Smyth returned to Marion on Oct. 6, 1943, and has lived here since. He joined the old Marion Congregational church in 1876.
Surviving are 2 daughters, Mary E. Fraker, Greeley, Colo., and Heloise Lasnier, Concordia, Kan.
Services are pending arrival of his daughters. Burial will be in Oak Shade cemetery.
A reunion with his daughters was being planned for Mr. Smyth's 100th birthday.
Cedar Rapids Gazette Tuesday Jan. 27, 1959
David Bried Smyth, 99, a retired banker, died here Monday.
Born Feb. 24, 1859, at Marion, the son of William and Mary Brier Smyth, he would have been a 100 next month.
Mr. Smyth's father was a congressman from the old Iowa Second district and also was head of the Oak Shade Cemetery Ass. when the first addition was laid out. Mr Smyth attended the Marion schools, Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, and Grinnell college.
He began work in 1881 at the First National bank, Marion. He was married at Spencer to Mary Pinneo on Nov. 14, 1883. They moved to Kansas in 1890. In 1919 they moved to Wyoming and returned to Kansas in 1928. In 1931 they moved to Nebraska where Mrs. Smyth died Oct. 8, 1933. Mr. Smyth returned to Marion on Oct. 6, 1943, and has lived here since. He joined the old Marion Congregational church in 1876.
Surviving are 2 daughters, Mary E. Fraker, Greeley, Colo., and Heloise Lasnier, Concordia, Kan.
Services are pending arrival of his daughters. Burial will be in Oak Shade cemetery.
A reunion with his daughters was being planned for Mr. Smyth's 100th birthday.
David Bried Smyth, 99, a retired banker, died here Monday.
Born Feb. 24, 1859, at Marion, the son of William and Mary Brier Smyth, he would have been a 100 next month.
Mr. Smyth's father was a congressman from the old Iowa Second district and also was head of the Oak Shade Cemetery Ass. when the first addition was laid out. Mr Smyth attended the Marion schools, Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, and Grinnell college.
He began work in 1881 at the First National bank, Marion. He was married at Spencer to Mary Pinneo on Nov. 14, 1883. They moved to Kansas in 1890. In 1919 they moved to Wyoming and returned to Kansas in 1928. In 1931 they moved to Nebraska where Mrs. Smyth died Oct. 8, 1933. Mr. Smyth returned to Marion on Oct. 6, 1943, and has lived here since. He joined the old Marion Congregational church in 1876.
Surviving are 2 daughters, Mary E. Fraker, Greeley, Colo., and Heloise Lasnier, Concordia, Kan.
Services are pending arrival of his daughters. Burial will be in Oak Shade cemetery.
A reunion with his daughters was being planned for Mr. Smyth's 100th birthday.
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