Lorraine Rose (Metz) Smith, 84, of Evansville, IN, lost a short battle with pancreatic cancer at the Heart to Heart Inpatient Center on Tuesday, September 19, 2023.
Lorraine was born on March 12, 1939 in St. Louis, Missourri. She made the Dean’s List all 4 years of college and graduated Magna Cum Laude. She was a secretary in the Tribunal Office of the Catholic Diocese of Evansville before moving on and retiring from the albion Fellows Bacon Center where she was an administrative assistant. She was a long time member of Germania Maennechor. She enjoyed baseball, bingo, crocheting, jigsaw puzzles and extended stays in Phoenix with her brother.
Lorraine was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis Smith, Jr.; parents, Sydney and Delores Metz and her sister, Donna Metz.
She is survived by her daughters, Rose (Jerry) Sweeney and Delores “Dodie” Smith; son, Curtis Smith, Jr.; 4 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; brothers, “Buddy and Richard (Kathy) Metz; sister, Mary Houghton as well as 6 nephews and a niece.
Regretfully, there will not be any services for this sweet, kind, caring, generous woman. She will forever be the smartest and strongest woman we have ever known.
The family would like to thank the kind staff at Heart to Heart Hospice, especially Dana, Amy, Shari, Valarie and Adam.
Simple Cremation Evansville is entrusted with care.
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