Undated, unidentified clipping in a scrapbook at the Saranac Lake Veteran's Club.
Undated, unidentified clipping in a scrapbook at the Saranac Lake Veteran's Club.Born: January 7, 1921
Died: December 11, 1997
Married: Harold James Smith
Kathleen J. Curtin was a World War II veteran. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curtin of 28 Kiwassa Road, and the first woman from Saranac lake to join the Women's Army Corps.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, December 31, 1997
Kathleen Curtin Smith
ARLINGTON, Va. - Kathleen Curtin Smith died Dec. 11, 1997 in the Brian Center in Durham, N.C. She had been failing in health for several years.
Born Jan. 7, 1921 in Newark, N.J., she was the daughter of Marjorie Thurber and Thomas Emmet Curtin. She grew up in Saranac Lake, attended public schools there and the universities of Wisconsin and Maryland, receiving her degree from the later.
Mrs. Smith served in the WAF's during World War II and later reentered the service and had a long career in the United States Air Force, being stationed in a number of bases, both in the U.S. and abroad. She retired a major.
Her husband, Capt. Harold J. Smith, died a number of years ago. Mrs. Smith lived in Clearwater, Fla. following the couple's retirement. She was a member of the Catholic church there.
Survivors include a sister, Jean Curtin Jewett of Fearrington Village, Pittsboro, N.C, and a number of nieces and nephews.
A funeral mass and military burial was to be held at Arlington National Cemetery on Dec. 29.
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