Rest In Peace Grandma Smith
Early Tuesday morning this world lost a very wonderful woman. This woman is E's grandmother AKA Grandma Smith.
We last saw her in hospice and had a few precious last hours with her. She was an amazing woman and it was very hard to see her down like that. She was the kind of woman who greeted you with a warm smile and a great hug and loved you for who you were. Not what others had or have thought of you. She has always been extremely welcoming of me as E's wife and B's mother and treated me like gold. She is definitely irreplaceable.
E has been holding up well. I know that this has been hard for him and all I can do is let him know how much I love him and support him. She had a hand in raising E and for that I am eternally grateful to her. The best part for me was that I did have an opportunity to thank her for all that she has done and given to me. She cared so much about me and my family that it touched me.
Below is her obituary from the Akron Beacon Journal. Feel free to read about how truly wonderful she really was.
Grandma Smith - we love you, always have and always will. Enjoy the loving embrace of our Father in Heaven and be our guardian angel from time to time.
Dorothy Eileen (Whitehead) Smith
Dorothy "Dottie" Smith, 74, went home to be with her Lord on November 4, 2008 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
Dottie was born on May 18, 1934 in E. Liverpool, Ohio to Lilly and Herbert Whitehead. She was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy and was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
Preceded in death by her mother, father, brothers and sisters, her legacy includes a family who will miss her dearly, her husband and best friend of nearly 60 years, Ralph; daughters, Janit (Carl) Layne of Coventry and Carol (Tom) Blose of Canal Fulton; sons, Garry (Shelly) of Akron, Craig (Kathy) of Brimfield and Robert of Newcomerstown; 11 grandchildren, Eric, Tiffannie, Jamison, Amanda, Adam, Brooke, Brittany, Julie, Bob, Ashley and Alison; three great-grand-children, Tyler, Mikayla and Brendan. She is also survived by her brothers, John Whitehead and Jerry Fuller; sister, Phyllis Jean Nye; many, many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles and numerous friends.
Her belief and faith in God was her guide through life. She knew that with Him all things are possible. There wasn't a person that met Dottie who didn't automatically fall in love with her beautiful smile and loving personality.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to all the staff at VNS and Hospice Care Center.
Family and friends will be received 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 6th at the Schermesser Funeral Home, 600 E. Turkeyfoot Lake Road (Route 619), where services will take place on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 1 p.m. Final resting place will be Northlawn Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, please make donation to St. Jude's Childrens Hospital or VNS Hospice Care Center. (SCHERMESSER-GREEN, 330-899-9107)
We last saw her in hospice and had a few precious last hours with her. She was an amazing woman and it was very hard to see her down like that. She was the kind of woman who greeted you with a warm smile and a great hug and loved you for who you were. Not what others had or have thought of you. She has always been extremely welcoming of me as E's wife and B's mother and treated me like gold. She is definitely irreplaceable.
E has been holding up well. I know that this has been hard for him and all I can do is let him know how much I love him and support him. She had a hand in raising E and for that I am eternally grateful to her. The best part for me was that I did have an opportunity to thank her for all that she has done and given to me. She cared so much about me and my family that it touched me.
Below is her obituary from the Akron Beacon Journal. Feel free to read about how truly wonderful she really was.
Grandma Smith - we love you, always have and always will. Enjoy the loving embrace of our Father in Heaven and be our guardian angel from time to time.
Dorothy Eileen (Whitehead) Smith
Dorothy "Dottie" Smith, 74, went home to be with her Lord on November 4, 2008 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
Dottie was born on May 18, 1934 in E. Liverpool, Ohio to Lilly and Herbert Whitehead. She was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy and was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
Preceded in death by her mother, father, brothers and sisters, her legacy includes a family who will miss her dearly, her husband and best friend of nearly 60 years, Ralph; daughters, Janit (Carl) Layne of Coventry and Carol (Tom) Blose of Canal Fulton; sons, Garry (Shelly) of Akron, Craig (Kathy) of Brimfield and Robert of Newcomerstown; 11 grandchildren, Eric, Tiffannie, Jamison, Amanda, Adam, Brooke, Brittany, Julie, Bob, Ashley and Alison; three great-grand-children, Tyler, Mikayla and Brendan. She is also survived by her brothers, John Whitehead and Jerry Fuller; sister, Phyllis Jean Nye; many, many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles and numerous friends.
Her belief and faith in God was her guide through life. She knew that with Him all things are possible. There wasn't a person that met Dottie who didn't automatically fall in love with her beautiful smile and loving personality.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to all the staff at VNS and Hospice Care Center.
Family and friends will be received 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 6th at the Schermesser Funeral Home, 600 E. Turkeyfoot Lake Road (Route 619), where services will take place on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 1 p.m. Final resting place will be Northlawn Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, please make donation to St. Jude's Childrens Hospital or VNS Hospice Care Center. (SCHERMESSER-GREEN, 330-899-9107)
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