Effie Marie Smith 68, died Monday May 12, 2003 at her residence in Oblong. She was born in Newton, Illinois on January 10, 1935 and was the daughter of James E. Duckworth and Lula Ethel (Davis) Duckworth. On April 19, 1952, she married James W. Smith Sr. Marie was a Certified Nurses Aid and retired from Union Hospital, Terre Haute, Indiana. She was a member of Berlin Congregational Christian Church rural Oblong and her hobbies included doll collecting, crocheting, camping and traveling. She and Jim had lived all over the world. Marie is survived by her husband James W. Smith Sr.; four sons and daughter-in-laws Steven Smith, Wiley D. & Chasity Smith, James W. Smith Jr., and Vonnie Kevin & Cathy Smith; two daughters and a son-in-law Deborah Jackson and Mary Angela & Jerry Pounds; 18 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; three sisters and a brother-in-law Mary Wyatt, Anna Mae & Bill Finn and Bernice Murphy; four brothers-in-laws & sisters-in -laws Thomas L. & Henrietta Smith, L. Eugene & Mary Smith, Clarence Ray & Jennie Smith and Sandra Sue and Steve Garner; father-in-law Zay Smith and several nieces and nephews.
Marie is preceded in death by her parents, one son Richard Allen Smith, one sister Louise Duckworth, Dean Penrod, four brothers Charles Wesley, Albert, Delmar Duckworth and an infant brother and mother-in-law Velma Smith.
Burial will be in Berlin Cemetery, south and west of Oblong.