This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Weeks, Alford, Harmon, Zitz Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8509 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 25 Mar 2005 Smith Helen L. Smith, 84, a resident of Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, died at Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center on Monday morning, Jan. 24, 2005. She was born Dec. 30, 1920, in Rockdale to John and Rosa (Alford) Weeks. She attended grammar school in Mexia and graduated in 1937 from Van High School in Van. She was employed by the U.S. Navy Exchange as an accounting supervisor in offices located in San Diego, CA, at her retirement in 1993. Her career spanned 25 years with the Armed Forces Exchange system beginning with her employment at the Hickam Air Force Base Exchange in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the mid-1950s. In 1998, she came to Sheboygan to be closer to her daughter, Patricia Federer. Mrs. Smith was a member of First Baptist Church of Lemon Grove, CA. She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Wilbur Harmon, John Zitz, and Frederick Smith, Jr; two daughters, Phronsia Jean Harmon, and Pamela (Smith) Dove; and her sister, Willie Juanita Evans. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Carey Federer of Sheboygan; seven grandchildren, Joshua Small, Ryan Small and wife Megan, Gable Bohn, Nathan Bohn all of Sheboygan, John Kramer of Kansas City, KS, Jerusha Bancroft and Aurora Dove of El Cajon, CA; a great-grandson, Brandon Bancroft; former husband, Alexander Gonzalez of San Diego, CA; and loving friends, Ethel Marsh of Virginia Beach, VA and Sandy Waters of Sun City, CA. Graveside services of committal will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 26, at Forest Grove Cemetery in Rockdale.