Marie Smith

TORRINGTON, WY…..Graveside services for MARIE AGNES SMITH, 101, will be held on Monday June 14, 2010 at Valley View Cemetery at 9am with Chaplain Ken Beauchene officiating. Viewing hours are on Sunday from 3-4pm at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel. Memorials can be made out to the West Nebraska Family Research and History Center or the Western History Center of Wyoming. Marie passed away on June 9, 2010 at Goshen Care Center in Torrington, Wyoming. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends are invited to send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Marie was born in a covered wagon to Emmett and Mae (Smith) Rose at Buffalo, Harper County, Oklahoma Territory. She talked of the soldiers bringing supplies to the homesteaders. Her family moved back to Missouri where she grew up and attended school. As a young woman she and her family moved two and a half miles west of Lyman, Nebraska. This is where Marie met and married Silver J. Smith, a native of Custer County Nebraska. They married in Gering on April 9, 1932. Marie and Silver lived in several valley towns; Lyman, Huntley, Yoder, Torrington, Lingle, Fort Laramie, Guernsey, Hartville, and Sunrise Wyoming. She was a quiet person with not too much to say, but many people would tell you she was a good cook and made the best homemade bread. She was a hard worker growing up. Marie continued to be with her family. She and her children spent summers working in the beet, beans, and potato fields, and when the mine was closed her husband joined them. After her children left home she worked in cafes as a dish washer. Marie socialized after her children left the home. She loved bingo, puzzles, piecing quilts. After she entered the nursing home she was interested in embroidering quilt tops, and doing so until 2004 at the age of 96, still threading her own needle. Marie slipped away quietly after lunch to be with God. Silver and Marie was blessed with thirteen children with ten surviving: Ella Mae Stuck Orson (Buddy/Snuffy) Smith, Willa Mae Teske, Dorothy (Jerry) Ackerman-Nash, Fern (Bob) Stoger, Wayne (Stacey) Smith, all of Torrington, WY, Ruth (Allen) Vance of Scottsbluff, NE, Norma Spidle of North Platte, NE, Ruby (Jim) Ackerman of Lakewood, CO, one brother Fred Rose of Powell, WY, 24 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, and 3 great-great- grandchildren, several nieces, nephews, friends, and many special friends at the Goshen Care Center. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Silver, three sons, three grandsons, three brothers, and one sister.

Marie Smith

October 25, 1908 - June 9, 2010