Smith services

Dr. Smith died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002, at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

He was born Aug. 2, 1929, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Lynwood H. Sr. and Arline (Chandler) Smith. He grew up in Kansas City, Kan.

He was a retired internal medicine physician from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Kansas University in 1951. He attended Kansas University School of Medicine and received his medical degree in 1960. He then went to the Mayo Clinic and practiced there until going to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, to further his education before returning to the Mayo Clinic. He practiced medicine there for 35 years before retiring and moving 7 1/2 years ago to Lawrence from Rochester, Minn.

Dr. Smith was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, and the Lawrence Rotary Club and its board. He was presently on the board of directors of the Kansas University Alumni Association and was president of Bert Nash Mental Health Center Board of Directors. He was also a member of the Chancellor’s Club at KU, the Williams Educational Fund and Beta Theta Pi social fraternity. He was a co-founder of the New Generations Society of Lawrence. He was on the board of directors for the Hall Center for the Humanities.

He married Marty Waddell on Dec. 15, 1951, in Salina. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two daughters, Katherine Smith, Prairie Village, and Martha Francis, Point Reyes Station, Calif.; two sons, Michael, Inverness, Calif., and Phillip, Papillion, Neb.; a brother, Chandler, Fairway; two sisters, Arline Taylor, Shawnee, and Lura Jane Geiger, Leavenworth; and four grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the church, the Hall Center for the Humanities, the Bert Nash Mental Health Center or to Kansas University Endowment Association, sent in care of Warren-McElwain mortuary. Online condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Smith.