HERMAN D. SMITH.(CAPITAL REGION)

Herman D. Smith, 89, of the Baptist Retirement Center, formerly of Albany, died Saturday in Ellis Hospital in Schenectady after a long illness.

Mr. Smith was born in Brunswick, Ga. He had lived in the Albany area for 55 years.

He was a communications executive for the Associated Press in Albany from 1923 until his retirement on June 1, 1959.

Mr. Smith was deacon emeritus at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church in Albany.

He was a member of the Army Military Emergency Network and the AFL-CIO. He was a mason with the Wadsworth Lodge 417 in Albany for 46 years, the Morse Telegraph Club Inc. and the radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service. …