Stuart Addison Smith

Stuart Addison Smith Stuart Addison Smith, 99, of the Seabrook on Hilton Head Island, SC since Sept 2003 passed away March 4th, 2016. He was born July 13, 1916 in Ida Grove, Iowa the son of the late Mayme Silliman Smith and Leonard S. Smith. Since 1978 a part-time Hilton Head resident at the Island Club, he became a permanent resident in 1999 when he moved from Ashland, Ohio where he lived 38 years. Mr. Smith was a graduate of the Fort Dodge Iowa school system, starting a sales career on his 10th birthday with a Des Moines Register paper route. At 18, while attending Fort Dodge Junior College, he started Business Supply Co. selling Business 500 Receipt Duplicate Books to doctors and lawyers. He introduced spiral binding to Large Receipt Books which he sold with a sales force of Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity brothers at the University of Minnesota. He also managed ACME, a campus school supply store. Graduating from the School of Business Administration with a BBA degree, in 1939 he opened Fort Dodge Stationery and Office Supply Store and married his beautiful wife Alice W. Winship. In 1941 when World War 2 started, they moved to Duluth, Minnesota and his mother took over the store and it grew during the war. He started the expediting department of Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Superior, Wisconsin, building frigates and cargo ships. After 2.5 years he became an ensign in the U.S. Navy, Navy Supply Corp School, Graduate School of Business, at Harvard University. He was appointed Ship Store Officer, U.S. Midway, the largest aircraft carrier afloat with 4000 men. After WW2 in 1946, he joined Waterman Waterbury, Minneapolis, Minnesota manufactures of furnaces and air conditioning, becoming vice president and national sales manager and taking the company nationwide. He spent 22 years in the industry. In Ashland, Ohio he then spent 15 years in advertising toy balloons and play balls with National Latex Corp. and was founder of Specialty Advertising Inc., dominating the market and retiring on his 70th birthday. Next he owned SASCO Specialty Advertising Inc. in Mansfield, Ohio. He was a 40 year Rotarian, a Paul Harris, a Mason, an Elk, American Legion and Methodist. He was preceded in death by his dear wife Alice of 60 years. He is survived by two daughters and son-in-laws, Laura S. Hillman MD and Richard E Hillman MD; Pauline S. Crise and Richard C. Crise. He had 7 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. Since 2000, his love and best friend has been Mildred "Millie" Frosch who also moved to Seabrook. Memorials may be made to The Seabrook Foundation Fund, 300 Woodhaven Drive, Hilton Head, SC, 29928. A Memorial Service at Seabrook will be held in the near future. Burial will be in the Ashland Cemetery, Ashland Ohio where he will join is wife, Alice. The Island Funeral Home and Crematory. theislandfuneralhome.com.