MCLEANSBORO -- Robert Edward Smith Sr., 75, of Lecanto, Fla., formerly of

McLeansboro, died at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2003, in Seven Rivers Hospital

in Crystal Rivers, Fla. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Gholson

Funeral Home in McLeansboro, with the Rev. Russell Monroe officiating. Burial

will be in Smith Cemetery near Dale, with military rites by American Legion

Post 106. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Masonic services by Walpole Tuscan Lodge 630 will be at 7 p.m. Friday at the

funeral home. A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Feb. 1, at Hooper Funeral

Home in Inverness, Fla. Memorials may be made to the Shriners Crippled

Children and Burn Unit. Mr. Smith was a retired civil engineer and commercial

and industrial properties appraiser. He had worked for the Illinois

Department of Transportation, the Ford Motor Co. and the American Appraisal

Co. He was a graduate of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy at

Rolla, Mo. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, a 50-year member of Walpole

Masonic Tuscan Lodge 630, a member of Moslem Temple Shrine Lodge 47962 in

Detroit, Egypt Shrine Temple 29297 in Tampa, Fla., American Legion Post 0155

and the First Presbyterian Church, both in Crystal Rivers, and the Citrus

Scottish Rites Club. He enjoyed his family, his work and the many friends and

neighbors he met during his lifetime. He was born June 5, 1927, in

McLeansboro to John William "Bill" and Edith L. (McGill) Smith. He married

Emma Lou Gholson on Oct. 8, 1948, in Hopkinsville, Ky. She survives. Other

survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Ruth Eadie and Richard

Regenburgh of Houston; one son and daughter-in-law, Robert Edward and Donnia

Smith Jr. of Wellington, Fla.; two grandchildren, Erin Kate Smith and Sara

Lee Smith; one stepgrandchild, Robin Coleman; and one brother and

sister-in-law, John William and Frances Smith of Mascoutah. His parents

preceded him in death.