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Final rites for Josiah Howard Smith, 80, of 3536 Vanness,
who died in General Hospital on Friday, were conducted in Roselawn Funeral Chapel
today. Interment took place in Ocean View burial park. Mr. Smith, who was born in Pleasant Valley, Illinois, was a well-known painter of portraits and of pioneer life in the West. He came to Vancouver to live 25 years ago following a visit to this city in the early 'eighties. On his first trip he journeyed by saddle horse from his native state. He studied art in the United States, France and Germany before coming to British Columbia, and was at one time employed as a cartoonist for Judge magazine. Mr. Smith was working on a picture on order from New York at the time of his death. He married Amy Chase, third daughter of Whitfield Chase, after whom the town of Chase was named. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Donald Ross, 3536 Vanness, and one grandchild. |