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- I remember visiting Elise a couple of times when I was a teenager. She was always very complaining and whiny. I guess it must have been about the time of her husband's death, a fact which had escaped me at the time.
"Elise Smith
"Elise Smith, 92, of Palmyra, a former Quincy, Ill. resident died at 9:35 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 18, 1998) in Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Palmyra where she had lived since 1993.
"An Ozark, Ark., native, Mrs. Smith was born June 24, 1905, a daughter of Lorenzo and Rose Lee Wilson McLeod. She married Dwight L. Smith, June 10, 1926 in Palmyra. He died March 16, 1955.
"Mrs. Smith and her husband had farmed in the Palmyra and Emerson area for many years. After her husband's death, she worked at Blessing Hospital in Quincy as a nurse's aide for four years, then served as a house mother at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, then at a college in Northfield, Minn., Colorado State University in Greeley, at Cottey College in Nevada, Mo., and at McMurry College in Jacksonville, Ill.
"Mrs Smith had lived in the Canton Senior Housing from 1993 to 1976, then moved to Country-Club Heights apartment complex and later entered Maple Lawn Nursing Home. She was a member of Union United Methodist Church in Quincy.
"Survivors include two sons, Dwight L. Smith II of Chesterfield, and Donald K. Smith of Quincy; five grandchildren, Dwight L. Smith III of St Louis, Dwain L Smith of High Ridge, Dena A Smith of Kansas City, Mrs Neil (Darla K.) Holman of St. Joseph, and Daryl K. Smith of McKinney, Texas; and eight great-grandchildren.
"Mrs Smith was preceded in death by a sister, Marion V. Ongie.
"Services were conducted at 1 p.m. today in the Lewis Brothers Funeral Chapel by the Rev Robert Gail Woods. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery in Palmyra." -- Palmyra Spectator, presumably.
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Taylor Family Genealogy
1905 - 1998 (92 years)
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