Lillian Ruth Rust Smith Funeral

I need to get a copy of the Obituary for Grandma Smith, but until then, we’ll record what we remember from the funeral. Abe remembered that Grandma Smith told her grand-daughter Marni that she needed to be a cub scout leader. So – Marni asked to be the Wolf Leader for her boys. Hannah remembered that Grandma Smith’s sister, Marjorie showed her a doll named Donald that she and Grandma used to play with as girls. Truman, enjoyed a nice potty break in the middle of the funeral. He came back in with Jimmy and announced quite loudly in the middle of Emily’s glorious singing of Oh Divine Redeemer, “I went potty Mommy.!” Sigh… Eliza slept through most of the funeral. Oh joy! I learned a lot of great things about Grandma… that she was a quiet, mellow person who was very loving and kind. She said “you can never have enough tomatoes in your garden… to share with neighbors.” Uncle Rusty told a story about how he crumbled up his math homework in frustration. His mother, Grandma Smith came to him in his room with an ironed and erased paper and taught him patiently how to do division. Sweet.

Grandma was buried in the St. George cemetery next to her husband who passed away 16 years ago. The kids loved gathering pinecones while the adults talked. Grandpa Smith said the prayer at the gravesite. Brock, the child whisperer, helped with Truman. All the kids love Brock!