Smith, Carl Edwin

Passed: 1986-03-18

Age: 68

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice: 1986-03-19

Obituary Date:

Information: DEATH CLAIMS CARL SMITH - Carl Edwin Smith, 68, president and founder of Carl E. Smith, Inc., died Tuesday at Camden-Clark Hospital, Parkersburg, after a long illness.  He was born in Meadowdale, the son of Forrest Irving and Eva Ellen Hutchinson Smith, a pioneer family of Jackson County.  He attended Meadowdale Elementary and Gilmore High Schools.  Before entering the pipeline business, he was self-employed at a service station which he owned and operated.  He served in the SeaBees, a construction battalion of the U. S. Navy.  Upon his return from the service, he founded Carl E. Smith, Inc. Today, the company is one of the largest pipeline construction firms in the nation.  It is chiefly involved in large interstate pipeline construction, primarily the long-distance lines of pipeline companies.  The business leader was also president and founder of Carl. E. Smith Petroleum, Oil and Gas Production Company, located at Sandyville. He recently formed the Smith-Rouse Insurance Agency in Ripley.  The lifelong native of Jackson County served as commissioner of WV Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and as director of the Independent Oil and Gas Assn. of WV and was a member of the Ohio Oil and Gas Assn. and the WV Contractors Assn. In 1985, he was elected president of the National Pipeline Contractors Assn. headquartered in Dallas, TX.  He served on the board of directors of the National Pipeline Contractors Assn. for eight years prior to being elected president.  Mr. Smith was an amateur pilot and a member of the National Pilots Assn.  He also held membership in Greenhills Country Club and National Rifle Assn.  He was a past member of the Jackson Co. Airport Authority and Jackson Co. Improvement Council.  He was an avid supporter of the Jackson County Junior Fair.  He was a member of Ashton Masonic Lodge No. 12, Valley of Wheeling Shriner Club and Elks Lodge.  Survivors include his wife, Clarestine, Sandyville; three sons, Eddie Burl Smith, Mineral Wells, Donald Carl and Larry Dean, both of Sandyville; three brothers, Glen, Ravenswood, Olin, Sandyville, and Dale of Duncan.  Funeral arrangements were incomplete at presstime.  Straight-Tucker Funeral Home in Ravenswood is in charge of arrangements.