SMITH, HOOVER

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 06:17:53 :

Marin Journal
Thursday, July 13, 1920
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Frank Smith Is Called By Death

Frank Smith passed away Tuesday night after a week’s illness from an acute attack of heart trouble … from which he had suffered … for a number of years.

Around the Court House, where he had made his head quarters for the past two years as Deputy Sheriff, there was an air of gloom Wednesday when the men who knew him best and had grown to admire his sterling character learned of the sad though expected news of his death.

But the grief was not confined to his immediate circle of intimate friends. Everybody in San Rafael like Frank Smith, for they knew him as a trustworthy friend.

Most of all will he be missed by his grief-stricken sister, Mrs. Annie Hoover, with whom he made his home, and the members of Sheriff J. J. Keating’s office force. If there were two sides to Frank Smith’s life the fact was unknown to men. In his home, in his official life and his social and fraternal activities, he was ever the same, careful to avoid offending others in thought or deed, just in the performance of duty and able at all times to face without fear the consequences of his every act.

The deceased had long been a member of the San Rafael Fire Department. He was one of the Fire Police, and recently was honored by his admiring comrades by his election to the office of president of the San Rafael Fire Department.

The funeral will be held at 9:45 tomorrow morning with services at the F. E. Sawyer Parlors.

The pall bearers will be Frank Sherman, Rafael Duffy, Walter Castro, Martin Johansen and Louis Hughes.

The deceased was the son of the late Robert and Mary Smith, the brother of Mrs. Annie Hoover, and the uncle of Frank C. Hoover.