Person:Velma Smith (1)

Velma Smith (Engineering Dept. of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company) 37 years (had to go on disability) Osteoporsis.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Obituary for Velma Rae Smith, in Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
   13 Jan 1996.

   Velma Rae Smith
   
   Velma Rae Smith, 89, Topeka, died Thursday, Jan. 11, 1996, at a Topeka nursing home.
   
   Miss Smith worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone for 37 years. She had done volunteer work at the Topeka Association for Retarded Citizens and the Kansas Neurological Institute.
   
   She was born Jan. 17, 1906, in Marshall County, the daughter of Eugene Ray and Mary Alice Musgrave Smith. She had lived at Topeka since 1912. Miss Smith was a member of First United Methodist Church where she organized the first Sunday school class for retarded children. She also was life member of the Woman's Club.
   
   Survivors include two sisters, Veronica Smith, Shawnee Mission, and Vina Nelson, Tucson, Ariz.
   
   Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Mulvane Chapel at the United Methodist Home. Inurnment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the United Methodist Home, 1135 SW College, Topeka, 66604.

2. ↑ Sheridan, Kansas, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T624)
   FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2ZC-MBP : accessed 14 October 2017), Velma R Smith in household of Eugene R Smith, Solomon, Sheridan, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 185, sheet 8A, family 78, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 454; FHL microfilm 1,374,467. .