Dee George Smith was born May 14, 1937, the son of George and Bernice Hill Smith. He was a member of the class of 1955 however he did not graduate. He died November 9, 1958 and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Pocatello, Idaho. 

Dee Smith, 21, former Montpelier resident now of Pocatello. was killed Sunday about 2 PM, and Larry Keeler, 18, his brotherinlaw, also of Pocatello, was injured by the same bullet in a freakish hunting accident about one mile north of Meadowview Forest road junction an North canyon. The victim, with the youth who was injured. and Kenneth Keeler, his fatherinlaw, and Leo Johnson, comprised the Pocatello hunting party, reported Mark Wilson, Idaho state police, and John Wells, Montpelier policeman, who investigated the accident. All four were abreast hunting toward the north Smith and young Keeler joined near the top of a ridge and sat down to rest and scout with binoculars. Keeler was two feet below and slightly to the right of Smith. Sighting a deer, Keeler moved and the 3030 calibre rifle with the muzzle pointing to his left and lying across his lap, slipped off to the right. It slid about three feet and the hammer struck the edge of a rock, discharging the bullet. The shot creased Keeler's left chest just below the armpit, and continued upward, hitting Smith in the right temple and causing his instant death. Mrs. Kenneth Keeler and her daughter, the victim's wife, were waiting for the hunters on the Meadowview road, about one mile from the scene of the accident. Larry Keeler was brought to the Bear Lake Memorial Hospital. His condition was reported "good"  Wednesday.

Dee Smith was born in Montpelier, May 14, 1937, the son of George and Bernice Hill Smith, now of Pocatello. After attending Montpelier High School with the class of 1955, he graduated from Pocatello high school that year and married Janet Marie Keeler on July 3, 1958. He is survived by his widow, his parents, one sister, Beth Smith, one brother, Nyle Smith, all of Pocatello, a grandmother, Mrs. Ella Hill of Pocatello. This was Bear Lake county's first deer hunting fatality since November 13, 1953 when Percy W. Walters, 38, of Pocatello, carrying a deer through brushy country in Eight Mlle canyon, was shot through the hips by his hunting companion, Delbert Harris, also of Pocatello. L. E. Dixon, 56, of Montpelier, died last October 18 from a heart attack while hunting deer In Home Canyon earlier.