Olive Smith

Olive Mae Smith, second of ten children born to pioneering farmers Earl and Grace (Stittsworth) Stratton of Gove County, Kansas, Olive May Smith attended country schools and graduated from high school in Dighton, Kansas. She was married for twenty-eight years to the late Ellis Smith of Scott City, Kansas. She lived in Scott City, Kansas; Arvada, Colorado; Houston, Texas and Seattle, Washington, where she worked as a business or retail cashier. Olive owned and operated a coffee tea and spice shop, Olive's East, in Seattle from 1970 through 1975, then returned to Arvada Colorado and opened and operated a retail bed and bath shop. On retirement at age eighty, she returned to Scott City. She was a long-time member of the First United Methodist Church in Scott City, the local Rebekah chapter, the United Methodist Women and the Pink Ladies at Scott County Hospital. Most recently she lived in Grandview, Texas where she passed away peacefully on February third. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Laura and Bob Vogt of Tribune, Kansas, her four children, Eva Fairleigh of Scott City, Shirley Gatewood of Magnolia, Texas, Richard Smith of Stevensville, Montana and Roberta Proctor of Cleburne, Texas. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. Services will be at 10:30 am Friday, February 9th, at Price & Sons Funeral Home, Scott City, with interment following at Scott City Cemetery. Memorials may be given to United Methodist Women in care of Price & Sons Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 1:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday and 9:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.