Nancy Lucile Smith ascended to her Father in Heaven on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 in Salt Lake City surrounded by her loving husband, family and friends. Nancy was born in Salt Lake City on April 10, 1949 to Howard G. Smith and Lucile Clayton Smith. Nancy grew up on the avenues in Salt Lake Cityattending Ensign Elementary School, BryantJunior High School and West High School from which she graduated in 1967. She graduated from The University of Utah in 1971 with a B.A. Degree in Home Economics and Mathematics. Shebegan teaching at East High School in the Fall of 1971 where she remaineduntil she retired in 1999. It was there she met Donald Lee Smith, whom she marriedin the Salt Lake Temple on December 21, 1973.
Nancy served on the Salt Lake Teacher\s Association Executive Board, Negotiator for the teachers in the district, and Faculty Representative for East High School. She also worked with her husband as an assistant Debate and Speech Coach earningthe title of Second Diamond Coach Award from the National Forensic League in Ripon, Wisconsin.After her retirementfrom East High School in 1999, she taught mathematics for ten years in the Tooele School District.
Her hobbies included reading, both fiction and history,sewing, cooking, and spinning wool, which she refined from the raw product to wonderful shirts, coats, hats, and ties she made. She also workedenergetically with genealogy and LDS Church History being a direct descendent of the early pioneers in Utah. Nancy was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many of the auxiliaries. Two callings which she truly enjoyed was being the ReliefSociety President in several wards and her current assignment which was teaching the Gospel Doctrine Class. Shewas active also in politics and has served as Secretary for Her Precinct in Grantsville, Utah.
Nancy was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband, Donald L. Smith; Brothers: H. Clayton Smith (Sandra), James C. Smith(Sue), Willard C. Smith( Rosemary); Sister: Florence Myers (Oliver), and many nephews and nieces. A viewing will be held at Larkin Mortuary in Salt Lake City, 260 East SouthTemple from6:00 - 8:00 PM, onMonday, March 6, 2017, and at the Apple Street LDS Chapel(415 West Apple Street, Grantsville) from10:30 -11:30 AMonTuesday, March 7, 2017with funeral services to follow at12:00 Noon. Interment will be in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
