Olga Lou Smith passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Olga was born on August 13, 1927 to Granville and Edith Caraway in Hamilton County, Texas. She was raised in Fort Worth and graduated Paschal High School. She studied Art at Texas Wesleyan University for two years. After the birth of her first three children Olga learned how to drive a car, and found a job to support her family. She married John D. Smith in 1959 and took a job as a cartographer for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Olga was able to use her art skills for fun while at work. Aside from the mapmaking she delighted colleagues and friends with charactures of them for birthdays, retirements and other special occasions. You considered yourself pretty lucky to have one of her pieces of work. She was known as the company’s resident artist. Even after her retirement after some 30 years on the job she would receive requests from former colleagues to draw them. During her retirement she enjoyed traveling with her husband, painting, gardening and jazzercise classes with John. She is preceded in death by her parents, 2 siblings, and husband of 42 years John D. Smith Jr. Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Gail England, Charla Reid and husband Doug, John M. Smith, Suzie Torres and husband Mickey, Doris May and husband Jim, Donald Smith; daughter-in-law, Linda Smith; sister, Iris Guillery; grandchildren, Megan Childress and husband Robert, Christopher England, Sam Reid, Dave Reid and wife Rachel, Ashley Clingenpeel, Rachel Torres, Wayne Worthington, Sandra Smith, Laura Smith, Jimmy May, John May; and 13 great grand children. We will greatly miss our mother, grandmother and friend, more affectionately known as “The Hat Lady” who filled our lives with her unique song and dances.
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