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Birth:          20 Oct 1928 Washington, D.C.
Death:          2 Feb 2003 Boulder, Col.
Burial:         8 Feb 2003 St John's Episcopal Church Columbarium, Boulder, Col.

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Wilson&Anna McGrew's Fam Tree on ancestry
1930 in Bethesda, Montgomery Co., Md.
US Soc Sec Apps and Claims on ancestry
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US Navy veteran. Retired, Department of Commerce, Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
Graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder (MPA). 

Oct. 20, 1928 - Feb. 2, 2003 

 Frank White Smith of Boulder died of natural causes on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003, at his 
home. He was 74. 

 The son of Palmer Smith and Martha Baynes Smith, he was born Oct. 20, 1928, in 
Washington, D.C. He married Imogene Creech on June 14, 1958, in Bethesda, Md. 

 Mr. Smith served in the Navy. 

 He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from George Washington University 
and a master's degree in public administration at the University of Colorado. 

 Mr. Smith moved to Boulder in 1966 from Bethesda. 

 He worked at the Department of Commerce's Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he 
helped organize the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration from 
among several Federal agencies during the Johnson administration. He also helped 
clear funding for the department's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences at 
Boulder, by writing an OMB Issue Study, "Telecommunications, 1971." 

 After retiring, he joined Ball Aerospace as a project administrator. Retirement from 
Ball led him to work on resolving metropolitan Denver's plutonium vulnerability from 
Rocky Flats and final disposition of weapons-grade plutonium as reactor-fuel in 
nuclear plants. 

 Mr. Smith was a member of Sigma Xi and a member and lay reader at St. John's 
Episcopal Church. 

 Survivors include his wife of Boulder; three daughters, Sara P. Whiteside of Golden, 
Elizabeth M. Smith of Tuba City, Ariz., and Cary B. Sandoval of Northglenn; a brother, 
Palmer Smith of Seattle; three grandchildren; and three step-grandchildren. 

 A memorial service, including interment of ashes, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at St. 
John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder. The Rev. Rol Holverstock of the 
church will officiate. The service will conclude with a reception at the church. 

 Contributions may be made in his name to St. John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., 
Boulder, CO 80302, or to the CU Library, Friends of the Libraries, C/O CU Foundation, 
P.O. Box 1140, Boulder, CO 80306. 
M.P. Murphy & Associates Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements. 
Daily Camera, The (Boulder, CO) — Wednesday, February 5, 2003 
pub rec on ancestry 285 Mohawk Dr., Boulder, Col.

Parents
SMITH Palmer (8 Jun 1891 - 1955)
BAYNES Martha (8 Jul 1898 - 13 Aug 1984)

Siblings
SMITH Palmer (3 Sep 1922 - 11 Feb 2004)
SMITH Frank White (20 Oct 1928 - 2 Feb 2003)

Marriage To CREECH Imogene ()

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Children by CREECH Imogene
SMITH Sara P. ()
SMITH Elizabeth Marston ()
SMITH Cary B. ()

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