SMYSER, Mabel Sylvia (Roe)
Date of death: 19 Sep 1942 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
Franklin Evening Star, September 21, 1942
MRS. SMYSER
FUNERAL HELD
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Franklin Woman’s Rites Are
Held At Nineveh––Born
In Morgan County
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Funeral rites were held at the Nineveh Christian Church at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon for Mrs. Mable Sylvia Smyser, age 57, wife of Leo Smyser, who died at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at her home on Uutz Street following an extended illness. Death was due to carcinoma.
Services were conducted by the Rev. G. F. Powers, and burial followed in the Nineveh Cemetery. Miss Georgianna Keaton of Columbus, sang during the services, accompanied by Mrs. Marcus Stillabower.
Casket bearers were Floyd Britton, Oscar Hants, Otto Davis, George Walker, Harry Drybread and Jacob Coffman.
The many floral tributes were carried by the Mesdames Otto Davis, George Walker, Oscar Hants, Harry Drybread, Jacob Coffman, Tullie Craig, Roscoe Prosser, Alph Delaney, Fred Waltz, Otis Richards, Belle Stillabower, Myrtle Hardin, Fred Borgstead, Nelle Keaton, Ray Hardin, Dollie Burgett, Cecil Simpson, Dollie Cobb, James Brickey, Laura Craven, Howard Land and Anna Wells.
Mrs. Smyser was born in Green Township, Morgan County on December 10, 1884, the youngest of six children of Curtis A. Roe and Samantha Pritchard Roe. Her father died when she was two years of age and she then came to Nineveh Township to live with her aunt and uncle, Joseph and Susan Jane Hughes.
Mrs. Smyser attended the schools of Nineveh Township, also completing three years in the old high school there. On March 12, 1902, she was united in marriage to Leo Smyser, and three children were born to this union. A son, Donnel J. Smyser, was accidentally killed at the age of four when he was kicked by a horse.
2 Children Survive
Mrs. Clarence Hardin, a daughter, lives near Whiteland, and a son, Maurice Smyser, resides in Columbus. Also surviving are a grandchild, Billy Lee Hardin, age five; two sisters, Mrs. Ed Pearcy and Mrs. George Ritter, both of Cope; two brothers, Will Roe of Bargersville, and Joseph Roe of Martinsville; 24 nieces and nephews, 26 grand-nieces and nephews, and a host of cousins.
Mrs. Smyser served in the courthouse as assistant deputy treasurer under the late William Burgett, and also had been assistant to the late Joseph Hughes as trustee of Nineveh Township. She was a member of the Nineveh Christian Church, and was a member and past worthy matron of the Order of the Eastern Star at Nineveh. She had always been active in all community affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Smyser had resided in the Nineveh community until being forced to give up their home in the Camp Atterbury area. They came to Franklin on March 14, 1942.
Among those from out-of-town attending were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Roe, Jr., of Center Point; Mrs. Nellie Keaton, Miss Georgianna Keaton and Miss Eleanor Williams, all of Columbus; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Roe, Sr., and Mrs. Forrest Powell, of Martinsville, Mr. and Mrs. George Ritter and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pearcy, of Cope; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Crawford, Mrs. Harold Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ritter, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bettett and Clifford Roe, all of Indianapolis.
Submitted by Mark Wirey