Geneva Mae Smith

Feb 8, 1925 -

May 1, 2020

This is a revision of the obituary that published on June 14, 2020.

Geneva Mae Smith, 95, passed away peacefully in Hospice Care at Baxter Senior Living on May 1, 2020, with her daughter holding her hand. Geneva was born in Yuba, Okla., to Ike and Mossie Stoup on Feb. 8, 1925. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a church funeral service was not held. There will be a grave side funeral held during her interment at Angelus Memorial Park, located on Klatt Road in Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday, May 30, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. Pastor Autumn Kruger will be officiating the service. Geneva attended college at Southeastern State University in Durant, Okla., and received her bachelor's degree in teaching. Upon her move with her husband to Anchorage in 1949, she was employed at First National Bank Alaska as a teller, until the family returned to the Lower 48. Geneva began her teaching career at a two-room schoolhouse in Elfrida, Ariz., teaching grades 1-6. Upon the Smith family's return to Anchorage in 1963, Geneva taught one year at Nunaka Valley Elementary, then taught second grade at Airport Heights Elementary, until her retirement in the early 1980s. She was an active member of the Delta Kappa Gamma sorority, and an active member of Anchor Park Methodist Church, singing in the choir until 2014. In her spare time, Geneva enjoyed gardening, visiting with close friends and neighbors, and also traveling with her husband, Buck. Geneva's friends and family would like to say she was a sweet, kind and loving woman, who was most happy in the presence of her husband. Geneva is preceded in death by her parents; six siblings; her son, Robert A. Smith; her husband, Buck A. Smith; her grandson, James I. Vokacek; and her son-in-law, Kenneth P. Meyers. Survivors include her daughter, Vicki J. Meyers of Anchorage; granddaughter Kendra Mathias with her spouse, Adam Mathias and great-grandson, Logan James Mathias of Moses Lake, Wash.; her great-granddaughters, Jadelyn and Jayme Vokacek of Moses Lake; and her twin sister, Jeannette Palkowetz of Wichita Falls, Texas. In lieu of flowers, the family requests a donation to the Alzheimer's Dementia Society.