Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

 

SMITH

Campbell

Carlile

Clay

Foster

Griesinger

Holmes

Jenkins

McLane

Rhodes

Sharar

 

 

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – September 6, 2002

Marjorie J. Smith

May 8, 1921 - Aug. 28, 2002

Marjorie June (Jenkins) Smith, 81, died of a sudden illness on Wednesday, Aug. 28, in Sunhouse Hospice, Peoria, Ariz.

She was born on May 8, 1921, in Mishawaka, Ind., to Robert Long Jenkins and Sylvia Clay (Rhodes) Jenkins.

She graduated from Mishawaka High School in 1939.

She is survived by her husband, Louis Smith of Youngtown, Ariz.; a brother, Robert Edward Jenkins Sr. of Kalamazoo, Mich.; two sons, George L. Carlile of Glendale, Ariz., and Lee E. Foster of Raleigh, N.C.; four daughters, Kay A. (Chamberlain) Griesinger of Elkhart, Ind., Juanita E. (Carlile) Sharar of Phoenix, Ariz., Robert J. (Carlile) Holmes of Mishawaka, Ind., and Mary E. (Foster) Campbell of Mountain, Colo. She had 26 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a grandchild; two great-grandchildren; her parents; and by a sister, Mary (Jenkins) McLane of Leesburg, Fla.

Memorial services were held Friday, Aug. 30, in Lundberg Golden Door Chapel, Youngtown, Ariz.