MENTONE – Di Anne Smith, 77, of rural Claypool (Yellow Creek Lake), passed at 7:25 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at her residence.
Di Anne was born on Dec. 20, 1943, in Mentone, to the late Lester E. and Pauline Blackford Blackburn. She married on June 6, 1964, in the Harrison Center Church of Etna Green, to Charles Russell Smith, who preceded her in death on Oct. 8, 2015.
Di Anne was a 1962 graduate of Mentone High School. She then graduated from Ravenscroft Beauty College of Fort Wayne. She was a lifetime member of the Lakeland Art Association. She was known for her works in acrylic, oil paint and pencil drawing and made many murals. She loved gardening and was always very crafty. She enjoyed shopping and watching QVC. Di Anne also liked traveling with her family, especially her sisters, and even saw New Zealand and Australia.
She is survived by her daughter, Michele and husband Scott Fox, of Warsaw; son, Troy and wife Sandy Smith, of Claypool; grandsons, Chris Fox and Brandon Fox; brother, Burdell Blackburn, of Tennessee; and sisters, Sue Rupert, of Columbia City; and Linda Jones, Claypool.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and a granddaughter, Courtney Fox.
Private family services were held and the interment was in the Mentone Cemetery, Mentone, next to her husband.
The arrangements were entrusted to King Memorial Home, 101 N. Tucker St., Mentone.
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Donations can be made in her memory to the Lakeland Art Association, 302 E. Winona Ave., Warsaw, IN 46580; and KC Riley Kids Fund Kosciusko County Community Foundation, 102 E. Market St., Warsaw, IN 46580.
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