Mrs. Smith Passed Away

My sponsor mother at USNA has passed away. Her and her husband Capt. Smith took good care of me at the Academy. Wendy and I also were married in their back yard on the South River in Annapolis. She had stopped e-mailing a while back because of bad eyesight so we had not stayed in touch for the last year or two. It will not be the same going to Annapolis and not visiting the Smiths.


A short obituary from her son, Roy IV '60, follows:

Annis Gould 'Ann' Smith. Ann Smith, 92, the wife of the late Roy C. Smith, '34, died on April 2, 2006 in Annapolis. She and Roy were married for 65 years and lived together in many parts of the country and in Lima, Peru and Gibraltar. They have been reside of Annapolis since 1971. Ann was know to virtually everyone in the Naval Academy alumni circle and from Roy's days as Editor of Shipmate and their frequent chaperoning of alumni association overseas travel groups. Ann was active in Historic Annapolis, tutored children in the Headstart program, took up painting in her fifties, loved golf, dogs and the annual migration to the South River of her friends, the whistling swans. She is survived by two sons who served in the Navy, Roy C Smith, IV, '60, and Douglas G. Smith, who once served as Flag Lieutenant to Clive Van Arsdale, '34, six grand children and thirteen great-grandchildren. Her ashes will be interned next to Roy's in the USNA columbarium.