Longtime Haines resident George Ann Smith died of complications from colon cancer on March 6 in her daughter’s home in Eagle Point, Oregon. Her friends and children remembered her for her kindness, her tenacity as a homemaker, her depth of friendships, her abundant energy, and her wealth of stories.

Smith was born in Snow, Oklahoma in 1939, and graduated high school in Prineville, Oregon in 1957. In 1959, she met her…
