Esther Fern Smith, thirteen months old daughter of Benjamin W. and Minnie Hoffer Smith, died at 4 p.m. Monday, of complications, after an illness of two weeks, at the home of her parents, in Penn township, near Elstonville.
Besides her parents she is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Ruth, Hoffer, Darlene, Loraine, Wilbur and Benjamin Jr. all at home. Her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel B. Hoffer, Manheim, RD3, also survive.
Services will be held at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, at the home with further services at 2 p.m. in the Mastersonville Brethren in Christ church. Interment will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Lancaster Daily Intelligencer Journal - Tuesday, February 2, 1937