Anne Pinto Smith departed this life on November 30, 2019 to join her husband Harry E. Smith to continue their 65-year marriage. Anne was a native of Dunmore, Pennsylvania having moved to Philadelphia as a teenager to work with a law firm in Central City, and then meeting her husband Harry to move back to Hollisterville, PA. Together she and her husband began a law practice above what is now the Moscow Firehouse, and then moving after purchasing the Main St. property in 1959.
Mrs. Smith was very involved in the Moscow community until she moved to Florida in 1994 as she passed away a resident of Fort Myers, FL. She loved her home and surroundings in Florida and the special friends that she made, including friends which moved down from Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Smith was very involved with both social causes as well as political causes as she was a founding member of the Dunmore Woman’s Club; Lackawanna County Republican Women’s Club; American Cancer Society Ball of Hope; Lackawanna Lawyers Wives (hosting the induction ceremony of new lawyers beginning in 1971) and her proudest achievement as a Founding Member of the North Pocono Public Library. Mrs. Smith was also an Honorary Alumnus of both the University of Scranton and the Dickinson school of Law (89’). She was a key ingredient of many Republican campaigns including the election of Commissioners, Pennsylvania and United States Congressman and Senators and Presidential politics and helped to shape political decisions concerning Cancer treatment and Child literacy.
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