PATSY MANLEY SMITH

LAMAR- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Konantz Warden Funeral Home in Lamar for Patsy Jane Manley Smith, 85, who died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, due to pancreatic cancer. Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Wagoner Cemetery in Stockton.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include one brother, George L. Manley, Vancouver, Wash.; a daughter, Piper Jane Blankinship and husband Jeff, Layton, Utah; a stepson, Thurston Smith and wife Rose Anna, Tucson, Ariz.; a granddaughter, Janis Sorter; a stepdaughter, Gay Lavallee Fraser and husband Tom, Austin, Texas and a grandson, Marcel Lavallee.

Mrs. Smith was born Feb. 16, 1933, to George W. Manley and Iva (Loveall) Manley, in Des Moines, Iowa. She was married to Frank Alexander Smith from 1962-1993.

She graduated from High School Milford Twp. School in Nevada, Iowa. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Weber State University in 1997 with a Bachelor in Social Work. She was a member of Alpha Delta Mu National Social Work Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi. She was a license social service worker and a licensed substance abuse counselor.

She was a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and served as northern branch representative, vice president and president of that organization. She had been a member of the Utah State Social Work Board from 2005-2009. She worked at the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Program in Ogden Utah, for 12 years. She was the program director of the men and women’s program from 1999-2010, when she retired.

She continued her volunteer services as secretary of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, she served on the Prevention and Recovery Day Committee at Weber Human Services, the Weber Coalition for a Health Community and the Healthy Mom’s Committee at McKay Dee Hospital; she assisted as a volunteer for the Celebrate Recovery Group at Washington Heights Community Church, which she regularly attended.

Fourteen years of her life was spent working in the substance abuse field at Serenity House, Clinical Consultants and the Salvation Army. Needless to say, she enjoyed Social Work. She had been a member of the Friendly Visitor Organization in Cocoa Beach, Fla.; the Suicide and Crisis Phone Service in San Bernardino, Calif.; Meals on Wheels, Ecology Commission and established the Phone Alert League with the Ministerial Association in Yucaipa, Calif. This volunteer service provided a daily check on those living, along who were elderly or disabled.