{"id":29071,"date":"2016-04-28T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29071"},"modified":"2016-04-28T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:09:12","slug":"obituaries-henry-louis-smrke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29071","title":{"rendered":"Obituaries: Henry Louis Smrke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Obits-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29078\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Obits-8-335x300.jpg\" alt=\"Obits\" width=\"335\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Obits-8-335x300.jpg 335w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Obits-8-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Obits-8-768x687.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Obits-8-280x250.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Obits-8.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a>Henry Louis Smrke, age 81, of West Grove, PA, passed away on Monday, April 25, 2016, at his residence.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was the husband of Gerlinde Sauberlich Smrke, who passed away in 2012, and with whom he shared 54 years of marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, he was the son of the late Louis John and Stovik Bronisawa Smrke<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Henry was a Food Inspector for the U.S. Government for 16 years, retiring in 1993.\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to that, he served\u00a0 in the U.S. Army for 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He enjoyed food, talking about his military days and being with his family .<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He is survived by three sons, Brian L. Smrke and his fianc\u00e9 Kimmi Sanders of West Grove, PA,\u00a0 Ingolf W. Smrke and his husband Ben of Lowell, MA and Steve L. Smrke and his wife Dot of Oxford, PA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His service and burial will be\u00a0 held at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In lieu of flowers, a contribution may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1626 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Arrangements by the Foulk &amp; Grieco Funeral Home, West Grove, PA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Online condolences may be made by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.griecocares.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">www.griecocares.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Louis Smrke, age 81, of West Grove, PA, passed away on Monday, April 25, 2016, at his residence.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was the husband of Gerlinde Sauberlich Smrke, who passed away in 2012, and with whom he shared 54 years of marriage. Born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, he was the son of the late Louis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29079,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions\/29079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}