University of Iowa Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Shirley Smith
Shirley Ann Smith died peacefully on April 21, 2018 in her home in Fulshear, Texas after a 3.5 year struggle with cancer. Beloved wife of Peter Smith, loving mother to Ginger Carls and Crystal Smith-Spangler, and adoring grandmother to Eliot, Clara, and Alexander, Shirley is also survived by sisters Bonne Zittritsch and Sharon Eldert and many nieces and nephews. Shirley was born in Burt, Iowa in 1947 and graduated from high school in Algona, Iowa. After finishing her degree at the University...
