Saturday, August 6, 2011

Clara B. Smith Obituary

The Billings Gazette  Oct. 9, 1936

An illness of six months' duration due to complications caused the death of Mrs. Clara McDonnell, 60 in her home at 205 South Thirty-seventh street.  Thursday at 4:45 a.m.  Born in Indiana, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Smith.  She spent most of her early life in that state and came to Montana 30 years ago.  She had lived in and near Ingomar until coming to Billings five years ago.  On July 26, 1922, she married Ed. F. McDonnell at Forsyth.  Mrs. McDonnell was a member of the Church of the Little Flower here.  Besides her widower, she is survived by three sons of a former marriage,  Eugene Buck of Billings, V.S. McDonnell of Warrington, Org., and Emmett Buck of Olympia, Wash.;  three sisters in Indiana and eight grandchildren.  Mass for the deceased has been tentatively set for Saturday morning at the Church of the Little Flower with interment in Calvary Cemetery.

Obituary provided by Lavern Wing a Smith family researcher

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