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Martha Henrietta Smith | Visitation:
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
3:00 PM until 7:00 PM
Kuhn Funeral Home
140 NW 2nd St.
Earlham, IA 50072
Visitation:
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
5:00 PM until 7:00 PM
family to greet friends
Service:
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
10:30 AM
St. John's Catholic Church
Adel, IA 50003
Special Services:
With burial in the Earlham Cemetery
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| | | MARTHA HENRIETTA SMITH
Martha H. Smith was born the daughter of Lewis and Cora (Fett) Hill on December 17, 1917 in rural Madison County, Iowa. She died at Community Care Center in Stuart on December 13, 2008 at the age of 90 years, 11 months and 26 days of age.
Martha graduated from the Dexter High School in 1935. Martha and Joe Smith were married on August 6, 1937 in the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Winterset, Iowa. This union was blessed with two children: Willis and Mary Jane. Martha and Joe farmed in the Dexter area for 10 years until 1947 when they purchased their farm south of Earlham, which they farmed until they retired and moved to Earlham in 1984. Joe died in 1986. Martha was a farm wife and homemaker most of her life. She loved to cook and was famous for her fried chicken. She also loved to bake cookies and cake for all her friends and family. She loved to garden and grew flowers after she moved to town. Martha enjoyed sewing, knitting and crocheting. She made potholders for almost everyone she knew. She loved to go the congregate meal site in Earlham each day and also looked forward to playing bridge and Skipbo with her girlfriends. Martha was employed part-time answering phones and as a greeter at Kuhn Funeral Homes.
Martha leaves the following grandchildren to celebrate her life: Larry Joe Allsup (Laurie) of Redfield; Cindy Villotti of Earlham; Genise Allsup (Craig ByWaters) of Stuart; Shelley Weeks (Bob) of Winterset; David Allsup (Theresa) of Stuart; Mark Smith (Julie) of Winterset; Rodney Allsup (Aimee) of Stuart; 14 great-grandchildren and 6 great great-grandchildren.
Martha was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe, son Willis Smith, daughter Mary Jane Allsup, son-in-law Larry Allsup and sister Marjorie McMullen.
In Loving Memory of
Martha H. Smith
Age 90
Born December 17, 1917 - Madison Co., Iowa
Died December 13, 2008 - Stuart, Iowa
FUNERAL SERVICE
10:30 am December 17, 2008
St. John’s Catholic Church - Adel, Iowa
OFFICIATING - Father Al Sherbo
READER - Daryl Spatz
ORGANIST - Mike Cooper
SOLOIST - Christine Suarez
SPECIAL MUSIC
“Ave Marie”
“Amazing Grace”
“How Great Thou Art”
“On Eagles Wings”
PALLBEARERS
Branden Kuhns Kyle Kuhns
Larry Joe Allsup David Allsup
Rodney Allsup Bob Weeks
INTERMENT
Earlham Cemetery - Earlham, Iowa
KUHN FUNERAL HOMES
Dexter Earlham Redfield
www.kuhnfuneralhomes.com
Safely Home
I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed;
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder why I so calmly
Trod the valley of the shade?
Oh! But Jesus’ love illumined
Every dark and fearful glade.
And He came Himself to meet me
In that way so hard to tread;
And with Jesus’ arm to lean on,
Could I have one doubt or dread?
Then you must not grieve so sorely,
For I love you dearly still;
Try to look beyond earth’s shadows,
Pray to trust our Father’s will.
There is work still waiting for you,
So you must not idly stand;
So it now, while life remaineth-
You shall rest in Jesus’s land.
When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you Home;
Oh, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come!
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