In Memory

William Smock - Class Of 1912

 

  William Curtis (Will) Smock, 67, member of a family long prominent in Delphi and Carroll county, died Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. in St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette.  He had been hospitalized several days after suffering a coronary.

   An elevator owner and farmer, with extensive farm interests both here and in Iowa, he was born August 28, 1894 at Radnor, Indiana, the son of the late James Calvin Smock and Mattie Hatfield Smock.  He graduated from Delphi High School and from Franklin College in 1916 where he was a member of the SAE fraternity.  He taught in Delphi for one year prior to entering World War I as a 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force.  In 1924 he was married to Martha Sarah Gasaway and they resided in Burrows for 13 years prior to moving to Delphi.

   Mr. Smock was a member of the Presbyterian church; Mt. Olive Masonic Lodge; a former member of Knights Templar and of Junto.

   Surviving are the widow; his mother, Mrs. Mattie Smock of Terre Haute; a daughter, Mrs. Boyd (Elizabeth) Wickman of Des Moines, Iowa; three grandchildren; a brother, Dr. George Smock of Terre Haute and a sister, Eva Smock Braden of Long Beach, California.

   The body was removed to the Jackson funeral home.  Rites are pending.

 

Obituary notice taken from the Delphi Citizen, Thursday, August 31, 1961