Dear Relatives

LILIA SMITH

Lilia Smith was born the 18^th of March 1925 in Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona, the daughter of Jesse Marsden Smith and Louie Elizabeth Van Wagoner.

Lilia attended the public schools of Snowflake, Snowflake High School; University of Arizona, University of Colorado, and New York University. She received her Bachelor Degree in Business and Public Administration in 1948 at the University of Arizona at Tucson, Arizona.

Her occupations have been housewife, secretary, and Genealogist. She migrated to New York in 1948 where she is still living.

She Married David Warren Seegmiller the 30^th of October 1950 in the Arizona Temple at Mesa, Arizona. They have one son, Jesse Frank Seegmiller, born the 30^th of September 1951 in New York City, New York. Jesse is now a Freshman at Brigham Young University.

She has been active as program chairman and recording secretary in the Parents Association of the Bronx High School of Science, the honor high school where her son attended.

At the division of Manhattan Ward her husband, David was called to be Bishop of the new ward. At present Lilia is relief Society President having served previously in that position from 1952 to 1957. She was Archivist for the Historian Documents Collection of Queens College of the city and University of New York which was their special collection of documents of New Your City and New York Stake, with the rank of Lecturer.

ELIZABETH ANNE SMITH

Elizabeth Anne Smith was born the 2^nd of June 1936 in Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona, the daughter of Jesse Marsden Smith and Louie Elizabeth Van Wagoner.

Her education was in the Snowflake public schools. She received her B.S. at the Brigham Young University in 1958. While there she was secretary to the A.S.B.Y.U. Senate from 1954 to 1957.

Her favorite recreation is swimming. She enjoys signing in the ward choir.

She migrated from Snowflake to New York in 1961 after filling an L.D.S. Mission in Oklahoma and Missouri.

Anne married Hans Klarer, a commercial artist, the 22^nd of July 1965 in Kusnacht, Zurich, Switzerland. The marriage was later solemnized in the L.D.S. Temple in Mesa, Arizona with her Father performing the sealing.

Anne is serving as President of the Young Women’s Mutual Inprovement Association at Manhattan Second Ward.

She and her husband are the proud parents of Miss Andria Klarer born 3^rd December 1968, their first child.

KATHERINE STEWART VAN WAGONER

Katherine Stewart Van Wagoner was born 23 September 1939 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. She is the daughter of Earl and Elizabeth White Stewart Van Wagoner. She attended elementary schools in Illinois and California. She also attended the Brigham Young University at Provo.

She enjoys bowling, playing the piano and organ, which she is talented in. She also takes pleasure in directing dramatic productions for the church and dancing. Her hobbies are knitting, sewing and gardening.

Katherine is a member of the LDS Church, having been baptized 5^th of February 1949. She is Sunday School Chorister, Road show Director, Music Director in M.I.A., and Organist in Sunday School and Sacrament Meeting. She also teaches Piano in her home.

She married David Reed Baumgarten the 28^th of August 1963 in the Logan LDS Temple in Logan, Utah.

Missions filled by Descendants of John Alfred, son of John Halmagh, and Sarah Ellen Start Van Wagoner:
Ray Van Wagoner (son) 1910 – Netherland Mission

Louie Elizabeth Van Wagoner (dau) 1913 – Hawaiian Mission

Jesse Marsden Smith (son-in-law) 1914 – Eastern States Mission (has been Stake President counselor, Stake President and is now Mesa Temple President)

Van Marsden Smith (grandson) 1938 – Eastern States Mission

Margaret Alice Eccles Smith (gr. dau-in-law) – Eastern States Mission

Earl LaDru Smith (grandson) 1940 – Hawaiian or Central Pacific Mission

LeRoy Stark Smith (grandson) 1946 – Central Pacific Mission

Leland Alfred Smith (grandson) 1949 – Hawaiian Mission

Marilyn Claire Day Smith (granddau-in-law) 1955 – New England State Mission

Elizabeth Ann Smith Klarer (granddau) 1959 – Central States Mission

Earl Van Wagoner, Jr. (grandson) 1952 – Eastern States Mission

Daniel Richards Allen (grandson-in-law) 1953 – Argentine Mission

David reed Baumgarten (grandson-in-law) 1956 – German Mission

Charles John Van Wagoner (Grandson) 1957 – Swiss Austrian Mission

Stewart Van Wagoner (grandson) 1966 – Southwest Indian Mission

Robert Leland Van Wagoner (grandson1947 – Texas Mission

Mary Gertrude Wood Van Wagoner (granddau-in-law) 1946 – Texas Mission

Donald Fred Tatton (grandson) 1940 – Northwestern States Mission

John Henry Van Wagoner (grandson) 1946 – Japanese Hawaiian Mission

Gary Mildenhall Van Wagoner (grandson) 1950 – Great Lakes Mission

Stephen Van Smith (gr. grandson) 1962 – Guatemalan Mission

Craig Dean Tatton (gr. grandson) 1963 – Eastern Canadian Mission

Allan Lee Smith (gr. grandson) 1965 – Peruvian Mission

Leland Roy Tatton (gr. grandson) 1965 – New Zealand Mission

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