Erma Letha Smith

Erma Letha Smith was a 65-year-old woman who died in the Silver Bridge collapse. Her husband, Charles Thomas Smith, also died in the incident. They lived on Route 2 in Bidwell, Ohio.

Smith, Erma Letha
Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, WV) - Published Monday, Dec. 18, 1967; pg. 3

Mrs. Erma Letha Smith, 65, was recovered from the river at the same time as her husband. She was born March 26; 1902, at Ripley, W.Va., the daughter of the late John Frey and Minnie Parsons Frey.

She and her husband were both members of the Church of God on Jackson Pike where joint funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Ezra Bowen and the Rev John Wheeler. Burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery at Rio Grande.

In additions to the children and grand- children mentioned previously, Mrs. Smith is survived by two brothers, Albert Frey of Akron, O. and Russell Frey of Mr. Morris, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Millard Elkins of Logan.

Friends are being received at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.

Obituaries for Victims
Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, WV) - Published Thursday, Dec. 21, 1967; pg. 3

Joint funeral services for Charles Thomas Smith, 65, and his wife, Erma Letha Smith, 65, were set for 2 p.m., Friday at the Church of God in Gallipolis. Burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery at Rio Grande, O.

Friends may call at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home today from 3 to 5 p.m., and from 7 to 9 p.m..