DOUGHERTY, OLIVE JEANETTE, (SMITH) - of Newfield, died Saturday morning, May 26, 2007, at Mill Pond Retirement Center in Ankeny, Iowa. She had been in declining health for two years, and was residing in Ankeny to be closer to family. Born in Newfield, Olive was the daughter of the late William Smith and Lillian Robinson Smith. She attended Newfield schools, and was a Vineland High School graduate of 1933. Olive completed a teacher education program at Glassboro Teachers College (now Rowan University), matriculating in 1936. Her twenty-six year teaching career included positions in Newfield, Franklin Township, and Seabrook Schools. The third of four sisters (the "Smith girls"), Olive will be fondly remembered as one who touched the lives of many through her service to church and community. Surviving family members include a son, George F. Dougherty III and his wife Bernice of Ankeny, IA, five grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and 24 great-great grandchildren. She was pre-deceased by her husband George F. Dougherty, Sr., by her step-daughter, Lorraine Dougherty Holmes, by her son, William David Dougherty, and by her sisters, Grace, Jessie, and Claire. Olive was a life-long member of First Baptist Church of Newfield where she taught Sunday school and sang in the choir for many years. An avid traveler, she visited more than 50 countries and hosted tours of Europe, Hawaii, and South America. Olive sponsored several exchange students from Japan and had pen pals from all over the world. She wrote and published To Live in a Windmill, a Social Studies book for primary grades about life in The Netherlands. Her multi-cultural approach to teaching was recognized in Growing a Global Village: Making History at Seabrook Farms, a book (published by Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.) by Professor Charles Harrison of Rowan University, and the companion video, Seabrook Farms Remembered (produced by The Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center). She was also listed on Dec. 31, 1999 in the Vineland Times Journal as a Person of the Century. Her hobbies were gardening, wildflowers, genealogy, cooking, embroidering and quilting. Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, June 2, at 10:30 AM in the First Baptist Church of Newfield followed by burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. Relatives and friends will be received from 7 to 9 PM on Friday at the Pancoast Funeral Home (676 S. Main Rd., Vineland), and again from 9:30 to 10:30 AM on Saturday at the church. For those who wish, memorials may be made to William David Dougherty Music Scholarship, C/O Faith Baptist Bible College, 1900 N.W. Fourth St. Ankeny, Iowa 50023-2152. To e-mail condolences, please visit, www.pancoastfuneralhome.com

Published by The Press of Atlantic City from May 30 to May 31, 2007.