SMITH, Donald Hale

1912 - 1974  (62 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	SMITH, Donald Hale
  Birth	17 Feb 1912	Woodbine, Harrison, Iowa, United States
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Jun 1974	Monterey Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
  WAC	24 Apr 1997	MTIMP
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  _TAG	Temple
  Burial	San Carlos Cemetery, Monterey, Monterey, California, United States
  Headstones	Submit Headstone Photo
  Person ID	I365	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	SMITH, Heman Hale ,   b. 28 Apr 1887, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United Statesd. 11 Mar 1962, Midway City, Orange, California, United States (Age 74 years)
  Mother	COWAN, June Spurrier ,   b. 2 Jul 1890, Solon, Johnson, Ohio Solon, Johnson, Ohiod. 11 Jul 1976, Los Angelas, Los Angelas, California, United States (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	28 Dec 1910	Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, United States
  Notes	~SEALING_TO_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_TO_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_TO_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_TO_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP.~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 26 Apr 1997, MTIMP.
  Family ID	F280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	MUTTER, Elsie Helena
  Notes	No Children
  Family ID	F279	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	MCCONNELL, Clara ,   b. 1913, Willoughby, Harrison, Iowa Willoughby, Harrison, Iowad. DECEASED
  Marriage	1934
  Children	1 son and 1 daughter
  1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY OF JOSEPH SMITH AND EMMA HALE. Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House, 1929, 1958. [FHL Special 929.273 Sm51am] Database compiled by Michael Kennedy of Alpine, UT., Pres. Joseph Smith, Jr. Family Organization. Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY OF JOSEPH SMITH AND EMMA HALE. Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House, 1929, 1958. [FHL Special 929.273 Sm51am] Database compiled by Michael Kennedy of Alpine, UT., Pres. Joseph Smith, Jr. Family Organization. Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY OF JOSEPH SMITH AND EMMA HALE. Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House, 1929, 1958. [FHL Special 929.273 Sm51am] Database compiled by Michael Kennedy of Alpine, UT., Pres. Joseph Smith, Jr. Family Organization. Attorney in San Francisco. member of the Acacia Fraternity at UC Berkeley) and, based on oral family 'chit chat' a Naval hero of WWII, nominated for the Medal of Honor but awarded the Navy Cross for action as a Quartermaster on an old destroyer that was hit by a torpedo. [I've tried to find the citation but there are voids in the awards records, especially, I believe, for the battles in and around Guadalcanal in mid-late 1942/early 1943]. Uncle Don was also a personal political friend of Richard Nixon who wrote to him shortly before he died. I don't know when he left Iowa for the Bay Area but he related that, one day, he came home from school (don't know grade) and father Herman and mom June had moved, leaving no forwarding address…stranding him. (I'm sure he was taken in by friends). He was a Sea Scout in San Francisco where he learned navigation and discipline. While an History undergraduate (minor in Latin), at Berkeley, he was also in Navy ROTC. He graduated from Hastings School of Law sometime between 1933-36 [I think he skipped his senior year at Berkeley to go to Law School]. I have no information nor knowledge of his first marriage to Clara. After Pearl Harbor, he immediately went and enlisted in the Navy and, when it was noted that he'd been in Naval ROTC and could navigate, was immediately sent to the Fleet as a Quartermaster 3rd Class and bypassed basic training. He was assigned to an old WWI Destroyer [could have been an early design but built in the early-mid 1920s. {Hard to identify without corroborating documentation..I've tried…. Pity we only think of these things after the principals are dead}. After the action that he was recommended for the Medal of Honor, he was jumper to Chief Quartermaster and became an Admirals enlisted aid. Don applied for Officer Candidate School, didn't hear anything nor from follow-up inquires, and found his application in the bottom drawer of the admirals desk at the end of the war. It's tough being "GOOD" sometimes. Don was City Attorney of Del Rey Oaks, CA in the '50s, a strong campaigner for Richard Nixon in Nixon's 1947 senate race and vice presidential bid in 1952. [got the impression they'd known one another in the Navy during the war or shortly thereafter]. Uncle Don was also one of the attorneys who argued "Baker vs Carr" before the Supreme Court in the early '60s, much based on his briefs dealing with the "reapportionment of electoral districts in California". I don't know much about that. Only that, after the 20th or so request for copies, Don and Aunt Elsie had to start charging because of the printing cost. (auntie El said they wound up sending out about 2000 copies??). He was also a 'Scottish Rite Mason" and Grand whatever of the Lodge in Monterey in the late 60's…I think. (obviously, I'm not a member of the Masonic Order:). - John A. Mutter (Nephew) DEATH: Also shown as Died Monterey, Los Angelas, California.