Submitted by: Georgia Gill-Elkins

Smith, Elkins, Baxter, Hupp, Zielinski,

South Bend Tribune May 23, 1995 p. B 6

Lela M. Smith

Nov. 29, 1915 - May 22, 1995

     MISHAWAKA - Lela Smith, 79, of Sugar Pine Drive, died at 1 p.m. Monday in Michiana Community Hospital, South Bend. Mrs. Smith was born Nov. 29, 1915, in Kurtz, Ind., and lived in Mishawaka since 1930. On Sept. 17, 1938, in South Bend, as Lela Smith, She married Perry Elkins. He died April 30, 1967. On March 31, 1973, in Mishawaka, she married Robert Smith, who survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Sonnie L. Baxter of South Bend; a step-daughter, Gale Hupp of Mishawaka; three grandchildren; a great-granddaughter, a sister, June Zielinski of South Bend; and a brother, Arnold Smith of Benton Harbor. She was a member of First Church of the Nazarene.

     Service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Forest G. Hay Funeral Home, 435 S. Ironwood Drive, South Bend.  Burial will be in Southlawn. Cemetery, South Bend. Friends may ball from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the church.