Wendell T. Smith

Wendell T. Smith, 93, of Mt. Pleasant, died on Friday, March 24, 2017, at Henry County Health Center.

Smith donated his body to the University of Iowa Carver Medical Center Deeded Body Program. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m., on Friday, March 31, 2017, at First United Methodist Church, with Rev. Deborah Stowers officiating. Military Rites, by the Henry County Honor Guard, will be accorded following the service.

Memorials may be given to Shriner?s Children?s Hospital. Online condolences may be directed to www.olsonpowell.com. Olson-Powell Memorial Chapel, of Mt. Pleasant, is assisting the family with arrangements.

Smith was born on Oct. 26, 1923, in Mt. Pleasant, the son of Clarence E. and Mary Ethel Taft Smith. He was a 1942 graduate of Mt. Pleasant High School. Following high school, he was drafted in to the United States Army Infantry. A member of the 37th Division, he served in the Solomon Islands, the Battle of Bougainville, the Invasion of Luzon in the Philippines, and the liberation of Manilla. On July 17, 1945, he married Margaret Louise Pease, in Okmulgee County, Okla. She preceded him in death.

For eight years, he served as Henry County Treasurer.He then became a Mt. Pleasant Postmaster, a position he held for 27 years before retiring in 1981.

He golfing, hunting, fishing and hunting for mushrooms.

He was a member of First United Methodist Church.

Smith is survived by a son, Bruce (Mary Ann) Smith, of Mt. Pleasant; two sisters, Louise Trueblood, of Mt. Pleasant, and Beverly (Allen) Griggs, of Washington; six grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife; a daughter, Mardell Ybarra; four brothers, Edward Smith, Carroll Smith, Walter Smith, and Paul Smith; and two sisters, Kathryn Hannum and Emma Jane Hedges.