Lillian Frances Smith

Service February 9, 2018 – Willamette National Cemetery -Celebration of Life following at Courtyard at Mt. Tabor

Lillian Frances Lapointe was born in Berlin, New Hampshire. Her parents were Suzanne Marie Guais Lapointe and Joseph Auguste Lapointe. Her parents met in France during WWI – her father was from New Hampshire serving in the military and married Suzanne and brought her from France to live in the USA in 1919. Her parents – Victor and Marie Guais emigrated the following year. Lillian’s parents divorced when she was 2, and she was raised by her grandparents after her mother remarried in 1926. Lillian was adored by her grandparents and never lost her love for her hometown. Berlin. Her grandparents never learned to speak English, so Lillian spoke French up until the time she attended grade school. After graduating high school in 1941 she attended nursing school. She moved to Boston for a short time and took a job at Lever Brothers as an elevator operator – she said the job had its ups and downs. When WWII broke out, her heart called her into the Women’s Army Corp. She served from 1943 to 1945 as a nurse at the Army Airforce Base in Deming New Mexico. This is where she met her husband, Eddie Colflodt. They were married January 8, 1945. Eddie and Lillian moved to Seattle and had two children, Billy and Martha. Lillian worked as a dental assistant once the children started school. They divorced in 1962.

Lillian moved to Oregon in 1963 with her second husband. They bought acreage in Eagle Creek, where they had horses and cows an orchard and large garden. She loved the outdoors. In 1969 she divorced and moved to Milwaukie and started a business – Milwaukie Answering and Office Service which she owned until l988.

In 1976 Lillian married Richard E. (Dick) Smith and moved to Corvallis. Dick worked at OSU as an engineer overseeing the building of several buildings on campus, and was most proud of the Electrical Engineering Building. Both Lillian and Dick were involved with the college life and saw the opportunity through Crossroads International to host foreign students who were unable to travel home for the holidays when school was closed. They invited these young people into their home and were the USA family for so many. These young people became their children too, and many remain in contact to this day. Dick Smith passed on July 15, 1995.

Lillian was a free spirit – and her love for travel was summed up when she said “I can’t say no to go!” And go she did – travelling the world – visiting her family in France – Dick’s family in Sweden – her friends in Morocco and beyond. She had a great sense of humor and she was most definitely a people person – like a magnet drawing many friends into her life and home. She loved an adventure and made friends and memories wherever she went.

Lillian is survived by her sister, Miriam Acebido, her son, Billy Colflodt and wife Lauri, her daughter, Martha Germany, granddaughter April Milan, grandson Parish Colflodt and wife Wendy, granddaughter Cassandra Jackson, great granddaughters Jaycee Jackson, Mikhala Jackson and Ashley Colflodt, great grandsons James Jackson, Cody Colflodt and Andrew Whitbeck, and great-great grandsons Mylo Jackson and August Jackson Taylor, step-daughter Madelyn Antinucci and grandson Matthew Antinucci, step-son Doug Smith and wife Janet, grandsons Devon Smith, Taurean Smith and Navarre Smith and wife Katie and their baby great-granddaughter Lillian Smith. This was her legacy and she was loved and cherished by her family here and abroad and so many others. Lillian will live on in our hearts