{"id":74502,"date":"2020-05-01T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=74502"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:25:00","slug":"smith-barbara-age-77-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2020\/05\/smith-barbara-age-77-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Barbara (Age 76, Mitchell)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Smith\"It is with great sadness that after a courageous battle, we announce the passing of Barbara Evelyn Smith of Mitchell, formerly of Monkton,\u00a0at her home on Thursday, April 30, 2020 in her 77th year.<\/p>\n

Barb is survived by her loving husband of 56 years, Gary. Also surviving are sons Jerry (Gina) of Milverton, Troy (Sandi) of London, Tony\u00a0(Lori) of Monkton, and daughter Juanita (Dan Belfour) of Dublin. Special Grandma to Coleton (Courtney), Landon (Shawna), Maddison,\u00a0Pierson, Tyler, Jaiden, Porter, Grady, Myles, Bree, Maya and Joy. Also survived by brother Elwood Milne of North Battleford, SK, sister\u00a0Marg and Earl Illman of Stratford, brother Ken and Debbie Smith of Chatham and sister Orma MacKay of London, sisters-in-law Beth and\u00a0Gary Earl of Ethel, Corrine Smith of Cambridge, Gayle and Ken Dewar of Monkton, Bev and Randy Raycraft of Monkton, brother-in-law\u00a0Dale and Trish Smith of Monkton and lifelong friend Dawn Yundt of Monkton. Also fondly remembered by nieces, nephews and many\u00a0cherished friends. Daughter of the late Evelyn and Layton Smith and daughter-in-law of the late Ken and Georgina Smith. Predeceased\u00a0by brother Jack and Eleanor Milne, Joyce Milne, brothers-in-law Bill MacKay, Warren Smith and Wayne Smith.<\/p>\n

Barb especially enjoyed\u00a0her time with her grandkids, attending numerous outings at many arenas and baseball diamonds. Well known for her love of sewing,\u00a0cooking, baking and the ability to feed a crowd at a drop of a hat, she never refused the opportunity to help when asked. A huge volunteer\u00a0in the community, being an Optimist member, helping with the World Men\u2019s Fastball tournament and the United Church suppers in\u00a0Monkton over the years.<\/p>\n

A private family service will be held at the Lockhart Funeral Home, Mitchell. As per Barb\u2019s wishes, donations can\u00a0be made to the Elma-Logan Recreation Complex payable to the Municipality of North Perth or Childcan London at\u00a0www.LockhartFuneralHome.com<\/a>. A celebration of Barb’s life will be held at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is with great sadness that after a courageous battle, we announce the passing of Barbara Evelyn Smith of Mitchell, formerly of Monkton,\u00a0at her home on Thursday, April 30, 2020 in her 77th year. Barb is survived by her loving husband of 56 years, Gary. Also surviving are sons Jerry (Gina) of Milverton, Troy (Sandi)","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3683,3911,119,120,3910],"class_list":["post-74502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-april-2020","tag-barbara","tag-lockhart-funeral-home","tag-mitchell","tag-smith"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:14:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2020\/05\/smith-barbara-age-77-mitchell\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74629,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502\/revisions\/74629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}