Submitted by: Dan Rich

Eber H. Smith

April 6, 1920 - Feb. 8, 1999

South Bend Tribune 2/11/1999

Eber H. Smith, 78, of Stonehedge Lane, South Bend, Ind., died at 5:39 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 8, in Memorial Hospital. Mr. Smith was born on April 6, 1920, in South Bend, to LeRoy and Mae Alice Smith and was a lifetime area resident.

On April 4, 1941, in South Bend, he married Frances Porath, who survives. He is also survived by a daughter Christina (Richard) Herring, MD of Bryn Mawr, Pa.; a son, Gregory Smith of Philadelphia, Pa; two grandchildren, Laura and Michael Herring, both of Bryn Mawr; and by two sisters, Elizabeth Van Horne of Fort Wayne, Ind. and Elda (Bob) Brohan of Naples, Fla. He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Mr. Smith was a Real Estate Appraiser with Hallmark Real Estate Company. He was the manger of various offices for Gallery of Homes in residential and commercial sales, recognized by Gallery of Homes for highest listing and sales volume office out of eight offices, and was founder and president of Smythecrafts, LTD of South Bend. He was a graduate of South Bend Central High School, Purdue University, and was a World War II veteran with the 82nd Airborne Division. He was an associate professor of Military Science and Tactics for Purdue University R.O.T.C., Technical Director of the International Division of Bendix for Brazil, and North Central Regional manager (11States) for the Whirlpool Corp. He was a former precinct committeeman for the first district and third district, deputy voter registration clerk, co-chariman of committee against Local Measured Telephone Service, coach of Little League City Champs and was a member of the South Bend Symphony Society, Westminster Presbyterian Church, where he was an usher, and was also a sustaining subscriber with WNIT-TV.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William Street, with Rev. Harry Dale Collier, former pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church officiating. Entombment will follow in Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, 7301 Georgetown Road, Bldg. 12, Indianapolis, IN 46268.