- Date Of Birth: September 26, 1942
- Date Of Death: December 8, 2018
- State: Idaho
Theodore Bruce Smith, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away on Friday, 8 December 2018, at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Vacaville, California, after a sudden, short illness.
Ted was born 26 September 1942, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, to William Roger and Elna Yoland Whitney Smith, the sixth of eleven children. He attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, where he excelled in gymnastics and wrestling.
Upon graduation in 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was sent to San Diego for boot camp and then on to Michigan to mechanical school for specialized training. He was first assigned to the USS Black, a destroyer, which he served on during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs. Later, Ted applied to work in nuclear power and was sent to a nuclear training facility in Idaho. While in Idaho, he initially lived in Idaho Falls and then moved to Pocatello to room with some friends. It was there that he met DeAnne Secrist and subsequently married her on 24 July 1964.
