Mary Grace Smith, 87, LaPorte, died at 10 p.m. Tuesday (April 8, 2003) at LaPorte Hospital.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Cutler Funeral Home, LaPorte, with the Rev. Darryl Baker officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Visitation is from 4 to 8 p.m. today, and one hour before the service Saturday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Smith was born Dec. 12, 1915, in Jacksonville, Fla., to John and Katie V. (Wells) Sims. On Feb. 6, 1942, in Miami, Fla., she married Hoke V. Smith Jr., who died June 25, 1981.
Survivors include two daughters, Jonna Kate Guendling, Evanston, Ill., and Lila Elliott, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; and two granddaughters, Amelia Williams and Heidi Guendling.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Florence Sims, and her brother, John Jack Sims.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the LaPorte Presbyterian Church, where she served on the Board of Deacons and was involved in many other church activities. She established the Hoke V. Smith Scholarship Fund through the church.
She was a volunteer with Meals On Wheels and a member of the Kitchen Kin Home Demonstration Club and the LaPorte El Chapter P.E.O. She was part of the LaPorte Hospital's first Hospice Volunteer class, and she drove a LaPorte County Library Bookmobile throughout the county.
Memorials may be made to the Hoke V. Smith Scholarship Fund through the LaPorte Presbyterian Church.
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The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Cutler Funeral Home, LaPorte, with the Rev. Darryl Baker officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Visitation is from 4 to 8 p.m. today, and one hour before the service Saturday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Smith was born Dec. 12, 1915, in Jacksonville, Fla., to John and Katie V. (Wells) Sims. On Feb. 6, 1942, in Miami, Fla., she married Hoke V. Smith Jr., who died June 25, 1981.
Survivors include two daughters, Jonna Kate Guendling, Evanston, Ill., and Lila Elliott, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; and two granddaughters, Amelia Williams and Heidi Guendling.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Florence Sims, and her brother, John Jack Sims.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the LaPorte Presbyterian Church, where she served on the Board of Deacons and was involved in many other church activities. She established the Hoke V. Smith Scholarship Fund through the church.
She was a volunteer with Meals On Wheels and a member of the Kitchen Kin Home Demonstration Club and the LaPorte El Chapter P.E.O. She was part of the LaPorte Hospital's first Hospice Volunteer class, and she drove a LaPorte County Library Bookmobile throughout the county.
Memorials may be made to the Hoke V. Smith Scholarship Fund through the LaPorte Presbyterian Church.