Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins
South Bend Tribune 8.20.1981 p. 49
Smith, Schrager, Hier, Gettinger, Israelov,
Mrs. Irving (Florence) Smith
Mrs. Florence S. Smith, 62, of 2116 Bader,
died at 1:50 p.m. Wednesday
at Memorial Hospital after a five month illness. She was
born on Aug. 28,
1918, in Monessen, Pa., and had lived in South Bend for 44
years. On Aug. 15,
1946, in South Bend, as Florence Schrager, she married
Irving J. Smith. He
survives with a son Frederick J. of Brookline, Mass; two
grandchildren; a sister,
Mrs. Jean Hier of New York City; and three brothers,
Bernard, Leonard, and
Allen Schrager, all of South Bend.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Forest G.
Hay Funeral Home,
435 S. Ironwood. Rabbi Yisreal Gettinger of Hebrew Orthodox
Congregation will
officiate, along with Cantor Israel Israelov of Sinai
Synagogue. Burial will
be in Hebrew Orthodox Cemetery. She was a member of B'nai
B'rith Women,
Hadassah, Sinai Synagogue, and Sinai Sisterhood. Memorial
contributions may be made
to Sinai Synagogue, the Jewish Welfare Fund or the charity
of donor's choice.