The Topeka Daily Capital Friday November 25, 1927 Funeral Is Saturday. Mrs. Walter Ashton Smith, Well-Known Topeka Woman, Dead. Mrs. Walter Ashton SMITH, 50, died early yesterday morning at the family residence, 915 Harrison. Funeral services will be Saturday morning at 10 o'clock from the First Presbyterian church. Dr. Stephen S. Estey and Bishop James Wise, officiating. The body will lie in state at Penwell's chapel from 2 until 6 o'clock Friday afternoon. Active pallbearers will be Henry C. Kebbey, Frank C. Gibbs, E.J. Shakeshaft, Howard Johnston, Roy L. Bone and Eugene E. Sallee. Honorary pallbearers will be Justice William A. Johnston, John C. Emahizer, Frank Smith, J.W.F. Hughes, Wm. A. Macferran and E.H. Crosley. Mrs. Smith whose maiden name was Julia Etta McGree, was born in Illinois, January 31, 1868. The following year the family moved to Greenwood county, Kan. May 10, 1903, she married Walter Ashton Smith at Hildreth, Neb., taking up immediate residence at Oberlin, Kan., where they resided until the spring of 1911. With the exception of the last two years in Florida, the family has resided almost continually at 333 Greenwood avenue, Topeka. There survive her besides her husband; a son, Marion Ashton Smith, at the University of Illinois, Urbana; Mrs. Walter H. Tatge, Pittsburg, Kan.; Mrs. Emmett Graham, Abilene, Kan. A son, Walter McGrew, died in infancy.