Fred-Smith-Obituary

Fred Lee Smith Jr.

Washington, District of Columbia

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November 23, 2024
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Washington, District of Columbia

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The venerable Fred Lee Smith, Jr. of Washington, DC and Cobb Island, Maryland, died at his home on November 23, 2024, after an acute illness. He was born December 26, 1940, in Mobile, Alabama and raised in rural Sixth Ward, near Slidell, Louisiana. The eldest of five children born to Fred Lee...

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I always know him as my cousin Skippy. What a brilliant and great guy! Love, Trixie

I met Fred when I was in the Reagan administration in the early 1980s. Sometimes when you meet someone, you immediately like him or her. Fred was that for me; I immediately liked him. I saw him at a number of parties. After we left D.C. for California in 1984, I lost touch but got back in touch when he co-authored a great article on airline deregulation for my Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Fred was a great and, even more important, a nice, man.

Skip was a remarkable and thoughtful man who was a joy to be around. He had an opinion about almost everything and often would change his opinion based on what he learned about a given topic. The world has lost a treasur. Best wishes Fran!

A friend for over 50 years, Fred was a ray of sunshine in every life he touched.

A prince among men.......so sorry to hear of his passing

A great and good man. Much loved and greatly missed.