1917 – 2004

NORWAY – Edna J. Smith, RN, 86, of Andover, died Friday, March 19, at Stephens Memorial Hospital. She had resided on South Main Street in Andover and had been in the area since 1942.

She was born in Newport, N.H. on Sept. 4, 1917, a daughter of Charles and Alice Rollins Armstrong. She graduated in 1935 from Towle High School in Newport, N.H., and in 1941 from the School of Nursing at Holyoke City Hospital, Holyoke, Mass.

She worked on the family farm in Andover for many years and, prior to her marriage and moving to Maine, she worked as a registered nurse at the Claremont Hospital in Claremont, N.H.

She was a member of the Calvary Bible Church and was very active in all aspects of the church serving as a deaconess, Bible superintendent, Sunday school teacher, and served on many of the church committees.

She was a member of the Andover Senior Citizens and a former member of the Andover Grange. She was an avid reader and loved Scottish music.

She was married in Newport, N.H. on Sept. 4, 1942 to the late David Smith Sr. who died in Rumford on Jan. 24, 1985.

Survivors include a son, David Smith Jr. and his wife Donna of Andover; two daughters, Margaret Ann Buzzell and her husband Albert of Orrington, and Marion MacKenney and her husband Robert of Edgecomb; a sister, Eva Charles of Newport, N.H.; a brother, Ronald Armstrong of Newport, N.H.; many nieces and nephews; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by three brothers, Richard, Phillip, and Donald Armstrong.