This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Watson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UW.2ADI/2161.1 Message Board Post: Are you sure that you have the correct man? Note the middle name. He would have only been 16 in 1927, a bit young for most pilots ..... I didn’t find an obit, perhaps it is in a Menlo Park paper, but I did find a notice of the accident and an article announcing the death ….. ~ ~ ~ ~ Menlan Is Injured Ernest Linwood Smith, 57 year-old retired Navy man of 161 Leland Avenue, Menlo Park, suffered multiple injuries last night when he was struck by a car near his home. Mrs. Mary Anne Boice, 38, of 291 South Balsamina Way, Menlo Park, told Highway Patrolmen Gerald Coeuille and Richard Himbarger that she was driving south on Alameda de las Pulgas near Cedar Street when Smith ran in front of her convertible. The victim told the officers he thought he could beat the car across the street. Smith was given emergency treatment at Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital for injuries to his right hip and leg and was transferred to the VA Hospital in Palo Alt. San Mateo Times, Section II, page 35, April 19, 1967 ~ ~ ~ ~~ Accident Victim Dies Ernest Linwood Smith, 57, a retired Navy petty officer, died Friday in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto of injuries suffered in a traffic accident two days earlier. Smith, of 161 Leland Avenue, Menlo Park, was hit by a car when he tried to run across Alameda de las Pulgas near Cedar Street near his home. The auto was driven by Mrs. Mary Anne Boice, 38, of 291 South Balsamina Way, Menlo Park. San Mateo Times, Page 24, April 25, 1967 From CADI: SMITH ERNEST L 01/31/1911 WATSON M FLORIDA SANTA CLARA 04/21/1967 561-54-5633 56 yrs