- Date Of Birth: May 29, 1929
- Date Of Death: May 18, 2019
- State: New York
Geraldine (Jill) Edna Smith, was born on May 29, 1929, the second of two children to Gerald and Nellie (Ainsworth) Phelps. After graduating high school, Jill worked on a potato farm where she met John (Jack) Smith who she married on November 4, 1950. Along with being a loving wife to Jack and mother to their five children, Jill devoted many years of community service to the West Bloomfield area. She served as a girl scout leader, the town historian, town council-woman, and an EMT volunteer. Jill was the first female bus driver hired by the Bloomfield Central School District where she drove for 17 years before retiring. Jack and Jill spent their retirement years living in their home at Black Lake, NY, visiting their numerous children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and traveling in their RV.
Jill is preceded in death by her parents, Gerald and Nellie Phelps, her brother, Jack Mallard, her husband, Jack Smith, and her oldest son John Smith. She is survived by her sisters, Lynn Skinner, Norine Maslanka, and Cathy Woodard; her brother, Jerry Phelps; her daughters and their spouses, Jean and David Evans, Janet and Ray Bozarth, and Jennifer and Tom Hoyt; her son and his spouse, Jim and Paula Smith; her twenty grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
