Obituary - Shirley Cloe Smick

A celebration open house for the life of Shirley Cloe Smick, 86, long time St. John resident, will be at the St. John Community Building today, Thursday, Nov. 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. Mrs. Smick died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at the Whitman Hospital in Colfax. A private family graveside service will be in the Maccabee Cemetery at Sprague.

Born May 27, 1926, in Sprague to Frank and Mary (Scheuss) Jones, she grew up in Sprague and graduated from high school there in 1944.

Shirley attended Washington State College in Pullman and completed her four year education degree in 1948.

She taught school for a whi...