Floyd G. Smith

Floyd G. Smith, 91, a former Cleveland industrialist and resident of Meadville, died Wednesday, April 7, 1976 at the United Methodist Nursing Hospital where he had been a patient since January 1975.

Mr. Smith was born in Randolph Township, March 27, 1885, son of William H. and Flora Davison Smith.  He married Emma Brakeman of Union City and later married Marie Steele Boger of Vero Beach, FL.  He settled in Cleveland as a young man and in 1905 became employed as a clerk for the former Van Dorn Iron Works Co.  He became company president in 1933 and chairman of the board in 1937.  Retiring in 1939, he became executive director of the Prison Equipment and Research Bureau.  During World War II, he served with the Cleveland Production Board as one of the senior examiners.  He returned to the family farm in Randolph Township in 1944.  Mr. Smith was a member and former trustee of the United Church of Guys Mills.

Survivors include his widow of Meadville; a daughter, Mrs. Edward (Martha Jane) Green of South Euclid, OH; a son, James B. Smith of Lyndhurst, OH; a sister, Mrs. Joseph (Bertha) Carpenter of Guys Mills; five granddaughters and six great-grandchildren.

Services were held at Waid Funeral Home.

Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Harmonsburg.