Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 04:53:18 :
Independent Journal
Monday, July 16, 1973
Page 4
Anna J. Smith Dies At 96
Anna J. Smith, longtime San Rafael resident and widow of the town’s first elected city clerk, died yesterday in a local hospital after a short illness. She was 96.
Mrs. Smith was born Anna Demetz in San Francisco in 1876. She moved to San Rafael with her family in 1890. She and her late husband, Eugene W. Smith, were married in 1897 in a house on C Street in San Rafael.
Mrs. Smith later recalled that for a honeymoon trip, they took the electric train to San Francisco and when they returned, the San Rafael Band came to their home and serenaded them.
Smith was in the shoemaking business when the couple married, but he later went to work for a haberdashery and also worked part time as city clerk. Later the jobs of city clerk and city assessor were combined and Smith held the position for 50 years.
The Smith home at 901 Irwin Street now stands on one of the city’s busiest intersections but was in marshland when the family moved there.
Mrs. Smith once told an interviewer that “progress in Marin has meant tearing down so there are places to park cars, and it’s a pity because Marin was so pretty.”
Mrs. Smith, whose husband died in 1953, is survived by three daughters, Helen S. Hobson of Sebastopol and Florence E. Mack and Eugenia S. Pitcher, both of San Rafael; a son, Harold W. Smith of San Francisco, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Keaton’s Mortuary in San Rafael. Inurnment will be private.
The family prefers memorial contributions to St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church in San Rafael or a favorite charity.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds information: she was the mother of the late Edwin E. Smith and George Smith.
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