By God's loving grace, Robbie Olyene Smith, age 88, was taken to her heavenly home on Friday, August 10, 2012. She died from many health issues which created a frail body that housed a strong, joyful spirit and mind. Mother was born December 28, 1923 in the town of Lillydale in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the second youngest of seven children. She was very proud of her birthplace, and of the fact that she was a quarter Cherokee. Her maternal grandmother was a full blooded Cherokee Medicine Woman and Mid-Wife who traveled throughout the mountains healing people and delivering babies. Perhaps, it was from this grandmother, whom she loved so much, that she developed her generous nature for helping others in need. In Tennessee, her family raised tobacco. She always said that God made everything good, even tobacco, but it was man that ruined it. In her early childhood, her family moved to Granite, Oklahoma where they became cotton farmers. Yes, Mother really was a true "cotton pickin' Okie"! It was in Granite, that Mother met the love of her life, Newton E. Smith, and they were married for 51 years before Dad died of cancer in 1991. In 1942, Mother's daughter and "best friend", Nancy Coleen, was born and six weeks later she said goodbye to Dad who had enlisted in the Merchant Marines. It was three years later that Dad came home, then, exactly, nine months later, her son, Larry Eugene, was born, the joy of her life, the living celebration of Dad's safe homecoming. In Mother's lifetime, she had many occupations. During the second World War, Mother was a Doctor's office nurse and hospital floor nurse in a small hospital in Mangum, Oklahoma. After the war, she ran a small beer bar that she and Dad owned in Granite; then, she drove a tractor alongside Dad as they planted and harvested crops for her father-in-law. In 1948, our small family moved to Compton, California where Mom worked at doing alterations and hanging clothes in a small dry cleaning business. Her experience there prepared her for later years when she and Dad completed their working life by operating their own dry cleaning business for over 20 years in Brea, California. At one time, Mother was a telephone operator for Sears and Roebuck catalog sales. She was also a stock picker for Revlon Cosmetics While working for Revlon, she was loaned twice to B.F. Goodrich for special projects. The first time, she sewed blackout curtains for the many windows in their large plant. The second time, she built fuel cells for the B-52 bomber. She was called to B.F.Goodrich this time because they needed a very small woman who could be rolled on a dolly under the fuel cell to patch holes created in the molding process; and one who could be lowered into the cell to patch any holes inside. She had a commendation in the employee newspaper for having the fewest leaks when the fuel cells went through final testing. After retiring, Mother and Dad lived in Pilot Hill, California, Falls City and Dallas in Oregon, and, finally she moved to St. George, Utah in 2000. At various times in her life, she was an accomplished seamstress, an ardent quilt maker, an avid fisher woman, a delicious cook of solid country foods, and a hard worker, ready to tackle any task, even learning to drive an 18 Wheeler that Dad owned for a short while. Always, her greatest qualities were her quick wit and the ability to be a story teller extraordinaire, with an amazing memory for recalling every detail of her lifetime of adventures, and for remembering the names of everyone she had ever known. No one ever left her house without a full stomach, a belly full of laughs from her jokes and stories, and an uplifted spirit. It has been hard to sum up a beautiful life in a few sentences and paragraphs. But, Mother's life can be summed up in one word, LOVE—love for her God, her family, all her friends and relatives, and even for complete strangers. Those of us left behind will miss that abundant love she so freely gave to everyone who crossed her path. Mother was preceded in death by her husband, N.E, her and Dad's parents, six siblings, a grandson and many beloved sisters and brothers-in-law. She is survived by her daughter, Nancy Poppitt (Gordon)of Central, Utah; her son, Larry Smith (Laura) of Topeka, Kansas; 6 grandchildren and their spouses, eleven great grandchildren, 5 sister's in-law, numerous nieces and nephews; and, many chosen children of her heart.