Margaret Smith

Smith, Margaret, passed away October 25, 2010 at her home in Brea, California surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Baltimore Maryland where she met and married her husband Bill Smith. Bill and Margaret then moved to California. They were married for 65 years until Bill passed in 2006. Most of their lives she and Bill lived in Montebello, California where they raised their twelve children. Margaret devoted herself to raising her children. Their home was filled with the sounds of her growing family and was always bustling with the coming and going of their many friends and neighbors. The old brick house on Fremont Square was their home for almost forty years. After their children moved on to raise their own families and after Bill retired from his family's business they moved to their new home in Brea. Their new home was the center of the growing family visited often by their children, their 24 grand children and 22 great grandchildren. Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Bill and son, Gregory. She is survived by her daughters Karin (Barry) Garcia, Colleen (Ken) Noonan, Kathleen Bauer, Anna Maria (Michael) Douglass, Julia (Larry) Linza, Jacqueline (Douglass) Mork, Bridget (Larry) Dominguez and her sons Michael (Jeannie) Smith, Shawn (Lorena) Smith, Brian (Maria) Smith, and Kevin Smith. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at Our Lady Of Guadalupe Catholic Church in La Habra on Thursday October 28 at 11 a.m. followed by a graveside service at Resurrection Cemetery.