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January 3, 2026
Edith Smith Obituary
Edith Renfrow Smith, 111, of Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, formerly of Bronzeville. Educator, memory keeper and supercentenarian, granddaughter of freedom seekers, first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College, friend of Herbie Hancock... Read Edith Smith's Obituary