Thornton Family Genealogy

    Thornton, Olive Lucille Smith

Birth:     29 Apr 1908, S Main St., Coventry Twp., Summit Co., OH
Death:     8 Sep 2005, Akron, Summit Co., OH

Father:    Thornton, Charles Arthur (*1871 Green Twp., Summit Co., OH +1940 Akron, Summit Co., OH)
Mother:    Olmsted, Corabel Thornton (*1879 Edinburg, Johnson? Co., IN +1957)

Married    Smith, John (*1912 +1975)
           27 May 1933, Sourced
Children:
    1. Smith, Marilyn Harrington (*1934)
    2. Smith, Dianne Doland (*1940)



Texts: 

News
On Monday 1 July, 1996, Olive moved into a senior citizens' complex,
Chambrel at Montrose, 100 Brookmont, Akron.  In cleaning house,
Marilyn found a 53-year old clipping of COT (see COT text),
"Thornton Now First Lieutenant" out of the O'Neil's paper, where
John had worked, too.
SOURCE: OKT letter to TLT, 29 June 1996
News
Olive died Thursday, two and a half weeks after a stroke.  She
was pretty conscious most of the time between, and in no pain.
SOURCE: Diane Doland phone conversation with TLT, 9 Sept 2005
Obituary
Olive T. (Thornton) Smith

Olive T. Smith (nee Thornton), 97, passed away September 8, 2005.
She was the beloved wife of John D. Smith-deceased; loving mother of
Marilyn (Bruce) Harrington and Diane C. (Kenneth-deceased) Doland;
grandmother of four; great-grandmother of six; and sister of Bessie
Offutt.

Services will be held 10:30 A.M. MONDAY at the Billow FAIRLAWN Chapel,
85 N. Miller Rd., with Rev. David Loar officiating. Interment at Rose
Hill Burial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home one-half hour
before service time. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to
Hospice of VNS, 3358 Ridgewood Rd., Akron, OH 44333 or the charity of
one's choice. (Billow FAIRLAWN Chapel, 330-867-4141.)
SOURCE: Akron Beacon Journal, Sept 11 2005
Testimonial
Talked to Mom the other day and she said one of ya'll
might go to Aunt Olive's funeral.  If you do please extend
my deepest condolences to both Diane and Marilyn, and let
them both know how much Mom and I enjoyed our visit with
Aunt Olive in July.

She was talkative and outspoken as usual, and still
enjoyed reading.  She had a bookcase full of paperback
novels that she had read and was working on a new one.
Always learning and enjoying life!  She was a wonderful
woman.  Hope we can enjoy our senior years as much as she
did!
SOURCE: Mary Thornton Boothe e-mail to TLT, Sat 10 Sep 2005
Testimonial
We were very glad we all got to see Aunt Olive before she
died.. she was pretty good considering her age..  still got
dressed up to go to dinner at the nursing home even.. thought
that was something.
SOURCE: Judy Thornton Gaylord e-mail to TLT, 11 Sep 2005
Testimonial
As reported, I am traveling on business (flew into Orlando on
Sunday) so sadly I will miss the funeral tomorrow.  I have
many nice memories of Aunt Olive and Uncle John: many visits
to the 1820 Wiltshire home, picnics, Xmas gatherings, a nice
lunch at the Akron City Club (Akron Women's Club?), etc. etc.
In later years I had a couple of amazing discussions with her
about the stock market.  She really knew her stuff!  Most
recently I saw her in Jan/Feb at Windsong when Mom was there;
the three of us had one especially nice visit where Aunt
Olive was just as alert as she would have been twenty or
thirty years ago.  We should all be thankful that she passed
away with no visible pain.

My Mom appears to to be taking it well, but I think she must
be very sad in private; it can't be easy to be the last
survivor of a family of seven.  Mom mentioned that Olive always
treated her especially well.  Olive was almost exactly five
years older so she probably thought it was her duty to take
special care of little Bessie.  Diane mentioned that Olive
was responsible for naming Mom Bessie.  I guess it was a
pretty normal name in 1913!
SOURCE: Hal Offutt e-mail to TLT, 14 Sept 2005