Frank was a WWI veteran. He was inducted Aug 6, 1918, at Bristow, OK and assigned to Company C, Twenty Third Machine Gun Battalion, U.S. Army, Camp Fremont Cal. He was on a ship headed towards France when the Armistice was declared, and the ship turned around mid-ocean and returned to the US. He was discharged at Camp Pike, AR Feb 9, 1919.
Obituary-The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, 21 Jun 1966
"Frank Robert [this should be Rhodes] Smith, a crane operator for 20 years with the Naval Ordnance Plant, died at 11:15 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph Infirmary. He was 69 and lived at 217 Ashbury.
"Smith was a member of Suburban Lodge 740 F&AM and a member of the Bethany Methodist Church.
"Survivors include his widow, the former Etta King; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dugan; and two stepsons, Woodford and Carlyle Jennings.
"The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Miller Funeral Home, 4505 S. Third. Burial will be in Louisville Memorial Gardens."
Obituary-The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, 21 Jun 1966
"Frank Robert [this should be Rhodes] Smith, a crane operator for 20 years with the Naval Ordnance Plant, died at 11:15 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph Infirmary. He was 69 and lived at 217 Ashbury.
"Smith was a member of Suburban Lodge 740 F&AM and a member of the Bethany Methodist Church.
"Survivors include his widow, the former Etta King; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dugan; and two stepsons, Woodford and Carlyle Jennings.
"The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Miller Funeral Home, 4505 S. Third. Burial will be in Louisville Memorial Gardens."
Frank was a WWI veteran. He was inducted Aug 6, 1918, at Bristow, OK and assigned to Company C, Twenty Third Machine Gun Battalion, U.S. Army, Camp Fremont Cal. He was on a ship headed towards France when the Armistice was declared, and the ship turned around mid-ocean and returned to the US. He was discharged at Camp Pike, AR Feb 9, 1919.
Obituary-The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, 21 Jun 1966
"Frank Robert [this should be Rhodes] Smith, a crane operator for 20 years with the Naval Ordnance Plant, died at 11:15 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph Infirmary. He was 69 and lived at 217 Ashbury.
"Smith was a member of Suburban Lodge 740 F&AM and a member of the Bethany Methodist Church.
"Survivors include his widow, the former Etta King; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dugan; and two stepsons, Woodford and Carlyle Jennings.
"The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Miller Funeral Home, 4505 S. Third. Burial will be in Louisville Memorial Gardens."
Obituary-The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, 21 Jun 1966
"Frank Robert [this should be Rhodes] Smith, a crane operator for 20 years with the Naval Ordnance Plant, died at 11:15 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph Infirmary. He was 69 and lived at 217 Ashbury.
"Smith was a member of Suburban Lodge 740 F&AM and a member of the Bethany Methodist Church.
"Survivors include his widow, the former Etta King; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dugan; and two stepsons, Woodford and Carlyle Jennings.
"The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Miller Funeral Home, 4505 S. Third. Burial will be in Louisville Memorial Gardens."
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