MARIAN ELAINE (HERMANN) SMART
Marian E. Smart age 82, passed away October 6, 2016 at Brendan House in Kalispell.
Marian was born April 15, 1934 in Portland, Oregon to Robert C. and Mary Jane (Bushek) Hermann. She attended Boise Elementary School and graduated from Jefferson High School in 1952. She married Marlin L. “Mel” Smart May 13, 1969. Marian and Mel moved to Kalispell January 1979.
Marian worked for CPAs both Portland and Kalispell for 43 years and retired in 1999. She was a member of the Kalispell Lions Club and chairman of the club’s Sight and Hearing Committee for many years and was named Montana Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation “Foundation Fellow”. She received the International Lions Clubs highest award being named a Melvin Jones Fellow. Having bad eyesight from the time she was very young, she enjoyed helping provide eyeglasses to people in the valley.
She had a great love of animals.
She was preceded in death by her father, mother and husband of Portland, OR. She is survived by her half-bother Robert Hermann and step-daughter Beverly Smart of Kalispell, Niece Karla Smart Morstad of Morehead, MN and Nephew Gary Schouch of Spokane Valley, WA .She wish to be cremated and buried with her husband in Conrad Cemetery.
Condolences and Memorials should be sent to P.O. Box 155 Kalispell,, MT 59903 or to the Kalispell Lions Club #13101 P.O. Box 321 Kalispell, MT 59901 in Marian Smart name.
Graveside service will be held 1:00 p.m. Friday October 14, 2016 at Conrad Cemetery. to send a note of condolence to the family please visit www.buffalohillfh.com. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home is caring for the family.