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Obituary- Smith, Walter

WALTER A. SMITH
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Tibbitts-Griffin Highland Mortuary for Walter Z. Smith, 86, Topeka, who died Saturday, April 3, 1982, at a Topeka hospital.

He was born April 27, 1895, near Garnett, the son of William Asa and Ella Jane Walters Smith, and spent his early life in the Garnett and Greeley communities. He lived at Osawatomie before he moved to Topeka in 1920.

Mr. Smith was employed by Topeka Public Schools in the building and grounds department 12 years and later was a building contractor before he retired in 1969.

He was a member of Scott Valley Church of the Brethren near Garnett.

He was married to Martha E. Bearce January 8, 1918, at Nevada, Mo. She survives.

He was preceded in death by two sons, Virgil Smith in May 1972, and Walter J. Smith in January 1935; and by two daughters, Martha E. Smith in June 1952, and Laura M. Smith in September 1974.

Survivors include three sons, Vernon V. Smith, address unavailable. William L. Smith, Rossville, and Charles ‘‘Jack'' Smith, Fallbrook, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Juanita McCall, Topeka, Mrs. Virginia Ham, Wichita, and Mrs. Geneva Durkin, Maple Hill; 24 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Burial will be in Topeka Cemetery.