I found a passion for genealogical research after my youngest son, Richard Erwin Smith, went to join his Heavenly family. I just did not want him to be forgotten. I now spend so much time in cemeteries that my children think that is what "vacation" means. I have two living sons, Jason Bradford Crain and Matthew Patrick Crain, three grandsons, Bryan, Kyle and Logan, and one granddaughter, Roxanna. My husband, Erwin W. Smith, was a very patient man who put up with my cemetery jaunts and even joined me on my last photo trip, finding that the person I was looking for was actually someone he had worked with many years ago. Small world isn't it? My husband has now joined my youngest with the rest of the passed family members and was buried almost one year after my dad died and just 4 rows apart at Jefferson Barracks.

I found a passion for genealogical research after my youngest son, Richard Erwin Smith, went to join his Heavenly family. I just did not want him to be forgotten. I now spend so much time in cemeteries that my children think that is what "vacation" means. I have two living sons, Jason Bradford Crain and Matthew Patrick Crain, three grandsons, Bryan, Kyle and Logan, and one granddaughter, Roxanna. My husband, Erwin W. Smith, was a very patient man who put up with my cemetery jaunts and even joined me on my last photo trip, finding that the person I was looking for was actually someone he had worked with many years ago. Small world isn't it? My husband has now joined my youngest with the rest of the passed family members and was buried almost one year after my dad died and just 4 rows apart at Jefferson Barracks.