I have made it a priority to honor my family at Arizona and California cemeteries, including Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery. I have replaced or repaired old and decaying headstones and placed new stones on sites that were lost to history. I often visit these places to connect and to remember.

I have lived in Arizona (Phoenix,Tucson,Prescott and the Verde Valley) and California (Santa Monica and Culver City, where I was born and raised and San Francisco and Santa Barbara).

My mother, Harriett Elizabeth Dicus Smith, spent her life recounting family history anecdotes and taking me and my siblings (Vick Lee Smith Baker and Ronnie Wroughton Smith) to her family places in Arizona including Jerome (where she was born and raised), Clarkdale, Prescott, Sedona, Oak Creek, Kingman, Phoenix, Ajo and San Manuel. We learned that we would never be lost and alone in this world if we connected to these places in our hearts.

My mother is buried in her father Lawrence E. Dicus' plot at Valley View Cemetery in Clarkdale, Arizona. Her mother, Dorothy Averyt Dicus, is buried in Greenwood Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, near her young daughter Dorothy Jean Dicus and her stepfather Elijah Flumerfelt.

My sister, Vicki is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City and my sister Pamela(infant) is memorialized at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Ronnie lives in El Segundo, California.

As a founding member of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, Prescott Arizona Chapter 1, I honor my father, Rodney Wroughton Smith (born Whittier, California and died Eugene, Oregon) and his brother, Chardin Wroughton Smith (born Winnipeg,Manitoba Canada and died Brownsville, MN) who both served on the USS Conyngham at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They are memorialized at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego.

Rod and Chardin are the sons of Chris Wroughton Smith (born San Francisco, California 1899 and died Santa Barbara, California) and Leona Wiebe Smith Murphy (Canadian, born in North Dakota and died Rancho Cucamonga, California). Chris was born to Charles Wroughton Smith of England and Josephine Henry of Barbados who were married in Santa Rosa, California. Charles and Chris were artists as were Chardin and Rodney. Chris retired from MGM motion picture studios in 1960 as head of sign department.

I have worked in a regional museum and also on behalf of historic preservation efforts in Arizona. I have written several articles for a local Prescott newspaper, one about my genealogy search for my maternal family ancestor Gr. Gr. Alfred Averyt ( married Mary E. Francisco Averyt, Lyons, NY) of Selma, Alabama and Prescott, Arizona and a research paper for a Sharlot Hall Museum presentation on the introduction of the automobile in Yavapai County, Arizona ('Jerome Union Stage Wars'.) I have also worked at small historical societies including the Jerome Historical Society...all as a volunteer.

In 2015, I returned to Arizona and the Verde Valley with my husband Albert Harold Bradshaw Jr.

Note: My son, Paul Dicus Brown died May 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. He lived in Santa Clarita, California with his wife and two children. He was born January 3, 1970 to Carolyn Wroughton Smith and Donald Miles Brown in Culver City, California. He was 49 years old. He is loved by all who knew him and his memory rests in our hearts. Some of his ashes were scattered near Douglas Mansion in Jerome, Arizona and in a stream near Greer, Arizona where he loved to fish with his dad as well as off the coast of Ventura, California. I hope to remember him also with a memorial plaque in the Verde Valley, probably at Valley View Cemetery.

I am thankful to all who are so giving of their time at Find A Grave. Their kindness is a blessing to many.

I have made it a priority to honor my family at Arizona and California cemeteries, including Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery. I have replaced or repaired old and decaying headstones and placed new stones on sites that were lost to history. I often visit these places to connect and to remember.

I have lived in Arizona (Phoenix,Tucson,Prescott and the Verde Valley) and California (Santa Monica and Culver City, where I was born and raised and San Francisco and Santa Barbara).

My mother, Harriett Elizabeth Dicus Smith, spent her life recounting family history anecdotes and taking me and my siblings (Vick Lee Smith Baker and Ronnie Wroughton Smith) to her family places in Arizona including Jerome (where she was born and raised), Clarkdale, Prescott, Sedona, Oak Creek, Kingman, Phoenix, Ajo and San Manuel. We learned that we would never be lost and alone in this world if we connected to these places in our hearts.

My mother is buried in her father Lawrence E. Dicus' plot at Valley View Cemetery in Clarkdale, Arizona. Her mother, Dorothy Averyt Dicus, is buried in Greenwood Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, near her young daughter Dorothy Jean Dicus and her stepfather Elijah Flumerfelt.

My sister, Vicki is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City and my sister Pamela(infant) is memorialized at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Ronnie lives in El Segundo, California.

As a founding member of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, Prescott Arizona Chapter 1, I honor my father, Rodney Wroughton Smith (born Whittier, California and died Eugene, Oregon) and his brother, Chardin Wroughton Smith (born Winnipeg,Manitoba Canada and died Brownsville, MN) who both served on the USS Conyngham at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They are memorialized at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego.

Rod and Chardin are the sons of Chris Wroughton Smith (born San Francisco, California 1899 and died Santa Barbara, California) and Leona Wiebe Smith Murphy (Canadian, born in North Dakota and died Rancho Cucamonga, California). Chris was born to Charles Wroughton Smith of England and Josephine Henry of Barbados who were married in Santa Rosa, California. Charles and Chris were artists as were Chardin and Rodney. Chris retired from MGM motion picture studios in 1960 as head of sign department.

I have worked in a regional museum and also on behalf of historic preservation efforts in Arizona. I have written several articles for a local Prescott newspaper, one about my genealogy search for my maternal family ancestor Gr. Gr. Alfred Averyt ( married Mary E. Francisco Averyt, Lyons, NY) of Selma, Alabama and Prescott, Arizona and a research paper for a Sharlot Hall Museum presentation on the introduction of the automobile in Yavapai County, Arizona ('Jerome Union Stage Wars'.) I have also worked at small historical societies including the Jerome Historical Society...all as a volunteer.

In 2015, I returned to Arizona and the Verde Valley with my husband Albert Harold Bradshaw Jr.

Note: My son, Paul Dicus Brown died May 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. He lived in Santa Clarita, California with his wife and two children. He was born January 3, 1970 to Carolyn Wroughton Smith and Donald Miles Brown in Culver City, California. He was 49 years old. He is loved by all who knew him and his memory rests in our hearts. Some of his ashes were scattered near Douglas Mansion in Jerome, Arizona and in a stream near Greer, Arizona where he loved to fish with his dad as well as off the coast of Ventura, California. I hope to remember him also with a memorial plaque in the Verde Valley, probably at Valley View Cemetery.

I am thankful to all who are so giving of their time at Find A Grave. Their kindness is a blessing to many.