Obituary in June 8, 2012 Star Democrat. We'll miss you, Ollie!
Oliver L. Smith
Posted: Star Democrat Friday, June 8, 2012 1:00 am
DENTON Oliver L. "Ollie" Smith of Denton died Wednesday, June 6, 2012, at the Memorial Hospital at Easton. He was 88 years old.
Born
in Wilkinsburg, Pa., on January 21, 1924, Mr. Smith was the son of the
late Oliver L. Smith Sr. and Eleanor Sterrett Smith. He was an Eagle
Scout and had attended the Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh, Pa., and
then The Taft Preparatory School in Connecticut. After serving in the
Navy as a Seabee at the end of WWII, he attended and graduated from
Cornell University in 1950.
From
1952 until 1962, Mr. Smith was a mechanical engineer for Westinghouse.
He and his family came to Denton in 1962 to purchase the Hallowell Ford
Dealership which became Smith Ford. After a long and successful career,
he retired in 2000. He was a member of the Caroline Bird Club, a past
member of the Denton Lions Club, the Caroline Historical Society, the
Bay Country Region Car Club, the DE T-Car Club, the Caroline County
Forestry Board, The Nature Conservancy, and the American Chestnut
Foundation. He was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church and
attended Thawley's Chapel in Tuckahoe Neck.
Mr.
Smith is survived by his wife, Eleanor M. Smith of Denton; two
daughters, Connie Young and her husband Stephen of Gilbertsville, Pa.,
and Joanne Shipley and her husband Mike of Ridgely; one son, Richard O.
Smith of Ridgely; one brother, Patterson Smith of Montclair, N.J.; one
sister, Marion Turner of Naples, Fla.; four grandchildren, Julin,
Jennifer, Kyle and Alexander; and two great-grandchildren, Hannah and
George. He was preceded in death by a brother, James Smith.
Funeral
services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Moore Funeral Home,
P.A., 12 S. Second St. in Denton. Friends may visit with the family from
6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Thawley's Chapel United Methodist Church on
Thawley Road in Tuckahoe Neck near Denton. The interment on Tuesday will
be in the Denton Cemetery, 24865 Meeting House Road in West Denton.
In
lieu of flowers, the family suggests for friends to send memorial
donations to Thawley's Chapel UMC, c/o Pastor Joseph Smith, Ridgely UMC,
P.O. Box 424, Ridgely, MD 21660. For online condolences, please go to
moorefuneralhomepa.com.
