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Mark Smith
Col. Mark A. H. Smith, U.S. Army (ret.), of Grassland, Linden, died March 16 in the Royal Haven Rest Home in Front Royal. He was 86.
Col. Smith was bom Oct. 31, 1901, in Alexandria, the son of Courtland Hawkins and Carlyle Fairfax Herbert Smith.
He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict and had been awarded the Legion of Merit and the Army Commendation Medal.
He was a member of Leeds Episcopal Church, th€ Society of the Cincinnati and the Society of Colonial Wars. He served as trustee of the Warren Memorial Hospital and was vice-president, trustee officer and director of the Burke and Herbert Bank & Trust Company in Alexandria.
Surviving are his wife Annie McGill Smith, a son Dr. Mark A. H. Smith Jr. of Westport, Conn., three half-brothers, Reginald Fairfax Smith of California, Charles R. Hooff of Alexandria and John C. H. Hooff of Sperryville, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted March 18 at Leeds Episcopal Church by the Rev. H. L. Fairchild. Burial with full military honors was in Leeds Cemetery.
George Butler
George Richard Butler, 89, of Boston, a retired carpenter, died March 19 at Culpeper Health Care Center.
A native of Scrabble, Rappahannock County, he was the son of Charles William and Maude Carter Butler.
He is survived by his wife Beatrice Weaver Butler, two daughters, Jane Thornhill of Culpeper and Jeanne Gibbs of Boston, five sons, George R. Butler Jr. of Culpeper,
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