Bertram G. Smith, a lifelong resident of Bayport, passed away yesterday morning at the age of 69, after a prolonged illness.He was well known in Bayport, taking an active interest in community and civic affairs prior to his illness. He was a retired contractor, member of Connetquot Lodge, F. & A. M., for over 25 years, past patron of Order of Eastern Star, member of the Royal Arcanum, the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, the Foresters, and the Bayport Fire Department.He leaves his wife, Inez B. Overton Smith, a son, Paul Whitman Smith of Madison, NJ, a daughter, Mrs. Douglas T. Goodale of Trenton, NJ, a brother, Fred D. Smith and a sister, Grace Smith of Bayport.Funeral services will be held at the Fred Smith home on Fairview Avenue tomorrow at 2 p.m., the Rev. Arthur T. Redcastle officiating. Interment will be in Waverly Cemetery, Holtsville. A Masonic service will be held tonight at 8 o'clock p.m. at Raynor's Memorial chapel in Sayville.

Son of Edmund Weeks and Anna B. Worth, husband of Lillian Margaret Arthur.Obituary - On Saturday last, shortly after 3 p.m., Thomas Edgar Weeks, a native and life long resident of Bayport, passed away after an illness of about two months. He was in his 70th year and was the son of Edmond and Ann Weeks. For almost 31 years he had held the government contract for carrying the mails between the railroad station and the Bayport post office, and had the fine record of having missed only one mail in all of that time, and on that occasion was greatly disturbed to find that his watch had stopped. When he first began this service for the government all of the mails were easily carried on a bicycle, but when the growth of the community made that too great a load for his two-wheeled vehicle, he utilized a pony and cart, and in more recent years, with the introduction of parcel post, he used a motor truck.He was one of the most reliable and dependable of men, as all the older residents of Bayport can testify, and for practically all of that period he had supplied most of them daily with their newspapers and periodicals. He was a modest man, honorable, prompt and exact in all business transactions, and those who knew him best recognized the really fine character. He had a good word for nearly everyone, and when there was no reason for commendation he wisely held his tongue. So far we have been able to learn he never had any enemy. "Tom Ed," as he was commonly known, was a good and useful citizen who will be greatly missed by the community for a long time to come. He was a former member of the Bayport Fire Department and years ago was granted an honorable exemption after 15 years of faithful service. Twenty-seven years ago he married Miss Lillian M. Arthur, of Bayport, who survives him. He has no other near relatives. The high esteem in which he was held was attested by the large attendance particularly of men, members of the Fire Department, from among those membership the pallbearers were chosen and others, at his funeral which took place at 2 p.m. on Tuesday from his late home on Bayport avenue. There were 46 handsome floral pieces. Services were conducted by the Rev. John J. Blythe, pastor of the Bayport M.E. Church, and interment was in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Patchogue.