Michaela H. Smith

Michaela was an excellent student and was reading when she started Kindergarten.

She loved school and she loved to read.

Michaela attended St. Mary's Elementary in Whittier as well as Roosevelt Elementary in Fresno. She then went on to Rio Vista Junior High and graduated from Central High School in 2011. She was attending Fresno City College and was planning to continue on to California State University, Fresno and eventually go on to the Police Academy to become a detective.

Michaela loved children, her friends, her family, and her God. She loved to dress up and be perfectly made up from head to toe. She had an unsurpassed love for babies of all ages. A family friend has said that God needed Michaela and I believe it was to take care of all his babies in heaven.

She is preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Jim and Avis Smith; and her uncle, Michael Smith.

Michaela is survived by her mother, Debra Delgado-Smith and her fiancé, Joel Ramirez; her father, Stephen Smith; grandparents, John and Lupe Delgado; her aunt and uncle and godparents, Stephanie and Brian Copeland; her uncle and aunt, John Mark and Raquel Delgado; her aunt and uncle, Renee and Santos Ramirez; cousins, April Copeland, John Copeland, Nathaniel Ramirez, Celine Ramirez, Lauren Delgado, and Jackie Delgado; her great-aunt, Catalina Delgado; as well as her best friends, Alexandra Sanchez-Martinez, Adrianna Quijano, Krishna, Doretta, Nick, Samuel Medina, Kenny Garcia, just to name a few as well as great-aunts, great-uncles, and cousins, too numerous to mention.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church on Saturday, August 24, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.