- Date Of Birth: December 15, 1944
- Date Of Death: May 19, 2021
- State: Maine
Bath-Margo Elaine (Snipe) (Oliver) Smith, 76 passed away at home on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 surrounded by her family after a long illness.
Margo was born December 15, 1944, the daughter of E. Roberta (Gordon) (Snipe) Travis and J. Walter Snipe.
She is survived by her loving husband of 13 years, David C. Smith, her daughters Suzanne Oliver O’Connor (Dennis), Jane A. Oliver and her son, Richard W. Oliver, Jr. (Petie), three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren: her brother, Paul Travis (Cheryl), her cousin, Cheryle Owen and David’s children, Stephanie Delapascua (Fernando), David Smith, Jr., Traycee Elwell (Beau) and Jason Walker and their families. She will be dearly missed by her family and so many friends including her most recent friend and companion, Sally Jacobs.
She was predeceased by her first husband, Richard (Dick) W. Oliver, Sr. to whom she was married for 22 years before his sudden passing in 1984. Additionally, predeceased by her parents, including her stepfather, Harold Travis, stepmother, Christine Snipe, and her brothers Walter Snipe, Errol Snipe, Lawrence Snipe and daughter-in-law, Lynda Olander and sister-in-law Donna Smith.
After being widowed in 1984, Margo returned to her beloved home of Bath. She purchased her home and unleashed her gift of decorating. She single-handedly wallpapered all of the rooms, displayed her most valued antiques and sewed curtains for all of the windows. Margo’s talents were not limited to the inside of her home, but also to the beautiful yard she created with multiple flower gardens.
In the late 1980’s / early1990’s she co-owed a gift shop, Country Squire Brass located in Boothbay and Freeport; she especially enjoyed working with brides to create their gift registries. After closing her business, Margo spent several years working at Skillin’s Greenhouse and later in the floral department at Shaw’s before retiring in 2016.
In 2008 she and David were married at the Phippsburg Congregational Church. Their love story had already been memorialized in a lovely article ‘Date Night’ in the Coastal Journal in 2004.
The family would like to express the greatest of gratitude to CHANS Home Health & Hospice staff for the devotion, support, and outstanding care they provided to Margo, David and her family; especially, Peter, Tracy, Holly and Abbie.
