Obituaries

Judith Ellen Smith (Boucher) June 20, 1944 to May 29, 2016 Newark, California

Judith Smith was born in Bellevue, Nebraska on June 20th, 1944. She attended public grade school and high school in Omaha and attended Omaha University. She worked at Wurgler's Lithography as a photographic assistant and Automation Incorporated in data entry. She also worked for five years at Western Electric Inc. She lived briefly in Alabama and England. In 1976 she moved to California where she married her husband, Michael. While she lived in Vacaville she worked in the computer department of American Foods Company. They adopted a son in 1982 and set up housekeeping on Lovers' Lane in Vacaville. In 1989 the family moved to Newark, CA. She loved her home and was a proficient gardener. They traveled to Europe, the Bahamas, Hawaii and all over the United States in their R.V. They went on a cruise to Mexico for their 25th wedding anniversary. Besides gardening, she really loved the tandem bicycle they rode for 27 years and antiquing. She was an avid reader and took up writing later in her life. She volunteered at the Windsor House Retirement Home, the SPCA thrift shop, The Alameda County Library, and Newark Public Schools both before and after her marriage and had a foster daughter from Save the Children for over 10 years. She was a member of the First Methodist church in Omaha and a lifetime member of the Women's Society of Christian Service. She was interested in the environment and was a contributor to many charitable and lobbyist groups to help save the land and oceans.

She is preceded in death by her mother, Wilma; her father, Fred; her sister-in-law, Carolyn; and mother-in-law, Evelyn. She is survived by her husband, Michael; her son, Scott; her brother, James of Valley, Nebraska; her sister-in-law, Sandra of Nashville, Tennessee; her sister-in-law Valerie Baldon and spouse of Kalamazoo, Michigan; thirteen nieces and nephews and their spouses; and seventeen great nieces and nephews.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Medical in lieu of flowers. Mrs. Smith's wish was to be cremated and her ashes scattered by friends in the Bahamas.