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Evelyn Smith
"DICKIE" SMITH
Monticello
Evelyn "Dickie" Smith, 87, of Monticello, formerly of Oelwein, died suddenly Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, at Silvercrest of Anamosa. Funeral services will be 9:30 Saturday morning, Feb. 22, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Monticello, with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Father Paul Baldwin will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 until 7 p.m. Friday at Goettsch Funeral Home in Monticello.
Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.
Surviving are three children, Kevin (Annette) Smith, Monticello, and Paulette (Bud) Stewart and Camille (Ray) Cook, both of Granbury, Texas; three grandchildren, Britt (Mikinzie) Smith, Monti-cello, Jillian Smith, Westmont, Ill., and Jessica Finley, Granbury, Texas; two great-grandchildren, Austin Smith and Lilly Finley; two brothers, Al (Jan) Kash, Woodruff, Wis., and Norbert Kash, Colo, Iowa; and a sister-in-law, Cheryl Smith, Independence.
Evelyn Marie Kash was born in Lamont, Iowa, on April 22, 1926, the daughter of Clarence and Mary Evelyn (Kenna) Kash. She graduated from Lamont Consolidated Schools with the class of 1942. Dickie was a nurses aide and a grocery store clerk following graduation. Evelyn Marie Kash and Paul Everett Smith were married June 6, 1948, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lamont. The couple lived in Manchester and Grundy Center before moving to Oelwein in 1951.
Dickie was a member of the Ever Late Wednesday Eight and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Oelwein and Monticello. She played basketball her whole life. She learned to play tennis in adult education and was an avid participant in the sport. She and her partner won the Oelwein Citywide Tennis Tournament in the late 1980s and continued to be active in the sport with her grandchildren. Dickie and Paul were active in square dancing and round dancing with the Merry Mixers, Country Cousins and Wild Rose Ramblers and Twirling Eagles.
The couple spent their winters in Harlingen, Texas, and summers attending their grandchildren's ball games.
With age impairments the couple moved to Monticello to be near their son and his family in 2007.
Dickie was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who will be deeply missed by her family and friends.
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