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Visitation:
Pending
Service:
Graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on
Thursday, March 12th, at Mount Pulaski Cemetery.
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Mount Pulaski
Obituary
PALM BEACH, FL - Mary Frances Meister Smoak, known
to her family and friends as Frances, passed away on
February 27, 2015 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Frances was born in Lincoln on January 23, 1920 to
Frederick Meister and Mary Frances Guttery Meister.
She subsequently moved with her family to Mount
Pulaski, where she went to high school. Frances
attended University of Colorado and American
University Law School. She moved to Washington, D.C.
and married Marion Smoak in 1959. They moved to
Aiken, South Carolina for 10 years, and then back to
Washington, D.C.
She is survived by her three children, Elmore
Fitzpatrick Smoak of Bel Air, MD, Frederic Meister
Smoak of Bethesda, MD, and Mary Frances Smoak Walde
of Palm Beach, FL, five grandchildren, and two great
grandchildren.
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Frances was extremely active civically: she was
President of the Aiken, South Carolina Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolution, on the
Women’s Board of Columbia Hospital for Women in
Washington, D.C., very involved with The Heart
Association in Aiken, South Carolina and in
Washington, D.C., and a longstanding member of The
International Neighbors Club in Washington. She was
also an accomplished journalist and a member of The
National Press Club in Washington, D.C. She wrote a
column for 10 years for the Aiken Standard called
“Letter from Washington” detailing humorous goings
on in the Nation’s Capital.
A graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on
March 12th, 2015 at Mount Pulaski Cemetery. In lieu
of flowers, the family would appreciate donations
made in Frances’ memory to The Middleburg Humane
Foundation, P.O. Box 1238,Middleburg, VA 20118,
phone: (540) 364-3272, www.middleburghumane.com
Services were entrusted to Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski.
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