Shirley Sylvia Rosenblatt Smith passed away on August 29, 2012, at the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda. She was born in Port Chester, New York, on July 26, 1926. The youngest of six children, Shirley grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Walton High School. She worked as a bookkeeper and secretary prior to her marriage to Simon Solomon Smith on October 12, 1947. The couple moved to Southern California in 1952. Shirley was a legal secretary, and then worked for her husband’s business, Glass Services Unlimited. They retired to Thousand Oaks in the 1980s, where Shirley worked part-time as a medical transcriber and then as a volunteer at Los Robles Regional Medical Center. She was active in the Jewish community, serving as president of the Temple Etz Chaim (TEC) Sisterhood , and was awarded the group’s top honor, the Woman of Valor. Shirley was also on the western region board of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism. She served as an ambassador and president of the Residents Council at Atria Hillcrest Inn in Thousand Oaks. Shirley is survived by her three children; Janice Tytell of Newbury Park and her husband, Ted; Lois Smith of Reseda; and Bruce Smith of Overland Park, Kansas, and his wife, Karen; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
