Hazel Smith's mother opposed marriage to Progressive, Lutheran Harvey Dueholm, frequently referred to as “Noisy” Dueholm, because Smith family traditionally “Republican first and Methodist second.” Hazel's father a long-time Clam Falls mail carrier; grandfather Rodney Smith the first Polk County highway commissioner; great-grand- father homesteaded in Town of Lorraine in 1874, an area reserved exclusively for Civil War veterans. Maternal great-grandfather a Civil War veteran who moved to Wisconsin from Pennsylvania.
