Betty Rose Smith

Mrs. Smith died Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at St. John Hospital in Leavenworth of cancer.

She was born April 3, 1934, on a farm east of Burlington, the daughter of Leslie and Dolly Meyer Castle.

Mrs. Smith retired from Kmart after 17 years of service in the Lawrence and Leavenworth locations. She was a member of United Methodist Church and was active in the Kansas Quarter Horse Racing Assn.

She married Lee A. Smith on June 21, 1952, in Burlington. He survives of the home.

Other survivors include a son, Ron Smith, Silver Lake; three daughters, Janet Smith, El Dorado, Rhonda Smith, of the home, and Vicki Baxter, Rye, Colo.; a brother, Bud Castle, Clearwater; two sisters, Delores Stanley, Sedgwick, and Hildred Blankley, McLouth; 10 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Quisenberry Funeral Home in Tonganoxie.

The family suggests memorials to Hartford United Methodist Church or the Betty Smith Memorial at the Kansas Quarter Horse Racing Assn., sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 993, Tonganoxie 66086.