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Joseph Harmon Smith Sr.

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Joseph Harmon Smith Sr.

Birth
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Death
23 May 1942 (aged 57)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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[The following was mostly extracted from an obituary, found on Utah Digital Newspapers, that was originally published in the Salt Lake Telegram on 23 May 1942. Additions are in square-brackets, and italics have been added to emphasize certain points.]

Temple Clerk Succumbs

Joseph Harmon Smith, 57, of 728 East Second South street [Salt Lake City, Utah], who, for 32-years had been employed in the recording offices of the [Salt Lake] L D S Temple, died at 8:10 a. m. Saturday, of a coronary occlusion.

Mr. Smith died at police headquarters, where he had been taken after he had been found slumped over the steering wheel of his car parked on the wrong side of the street at Fifth East and Second South streets, at 7:30 a. m. Saturday.

He was born in Salt Lake City, December 17, 1884, a son of the late John Henry Smith, member of the council of the twelve apostles of the church, and Josephine Groesbeck Smith. He entered the employ of the L D S temple in 1910.

[He married Sarah Jane McKinnon, his first wife, in the Salt Lake Temple on 29 June, 1910.]

He is survived by his widow [his second wife] Mrs. Leona Maxwell Smith; three sons, Robert M. Smith, Inglewood, Cal.; Joseph McKinnon Smith, Salt Lake City, and J. Harmon Smith, Montebello, Cal.; two stepsons, Vernon Coggle and H. T. Coggle [sons of Leona Maxwell and her first husband, Charles F. Coggle], Salt Lake City; four brothers, George Albert Smith, member of the council of twelve apostles of the L D S church, Winslow F. and Nicholas G. Smith, Salt Lake City, and E. Chase Smith, Chino, Cal.; and six sisters, Mrs. Priscilla Longton, Miss Claire, Miss Elsie, Miss Zella and Miss Josephine Smith, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Bessie S. Rex, Randolph.
[The following was mostly extracted from an obituary, found on Utah Digital Newspapers, that was originally published in the Salt Lake Telegram on 23 May 1942. Additions are in square-brackets, and italics have been added to emphasize certain points.]

Temple Clerk Succumbs

Joseph Harmon Smith, 57, of 728 East Second South street [Salt Lake City, Utah], who, for 32-years had been employed in the recording offices of the [Salt Lake] L D S Temple, died at 8:10 a. m. Saturday, of a coronary occlusion.

Mr. Smith died at police headquarters, where he had been taken after he had been found slumped over the steering wheel of his car parked on the wrong side of the street at Fifth East and Second South streets, at 7:30 a. m. Saturday.

He was born in Salt Lake City, December 17, 1884, a son of the late John Henry Smith, member of the council of the twelve apostles of the church, and Josephine Groesbeck Smith. He entered the employ of the L D S temple in 1910.

[He married Sarah Jane McKinnon, his first wife, in the Salt Lake Temple on 29 June, 1910.]

He is survived by his widow [his second wife] Mrs. Leona Maxwell Smith; three sons, Robert M. Smith, Inglewood, Cal.; Joseph McKinnon Smith, Salt Lake City, and J. Harmon Smith, Montebello, Cal.; two stepsons, Vernon Coggle and H. T. Coggle [sons of Leona Maxwell and her first husband, Charles F. Coggle], Salt Lake City; four brothers, George Albert Smith, member of the council of twelve apostles of the L D S church, Winslow F. and Nicholas G. Smith, Salt Lake City, and E. Chase Smith, Chino, Cal.; and six sisters, Mrs. Priscilla Longton, Miss Claire, Miss Elsie, Miss Zella and Miss Josephine Smith, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Bessie S. Rex, Randolph.

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