Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sammy Lee Smith

July 1, 1945 - June 2, 1996

South Bend Tribune 6/5/1996

SOUTH BEND - Sammy Lee Smith, 50, of 432 S. Olive St., died after an illness Sunday afternoon at 912 Thomas St. Mr. Smith was born July 1, 1945, in Lima, Ohio, and had lived in South Bend since 1945.

On July 8, 1975, he married Bertha Swanson. She survives with a son, Bradley J. of South Bend; one granddaughter; his mother, Sadie Smith of South Bend; three sisters, Christine Hudson of South Bend, Thelma Dye of Cleveland, and E.J. Hines of Flint, Mich.; and two brothers, Samuel Smith and Arthur Woods Jr., both of South Bend.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Alford's Mortuary. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call one hour before services in the funeral home.