Edith Lynn Chilcote Smith, 69, died peacefully in Houston on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Edith was a devoted wife, Mother, Grandmother, sister, and daughter. She was born in Tyler, Texas on November 28, 1944 to L.E. Ted Chilcote, Esq. and Edith Clark Chilcote. She attended Robert E. Lee High School where she met the love of her life, Ronald Stephen Smith. In high school, she was a Rebelette and enjoyed watching Ronnie play football. They went on to The University of Texas where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She recently was honored with her 50 year pin from the Fort Bend Kappas.

In 1964 she and Ronnie married and started their family in Tyler where she was a homemaker, active in the Tyler Junior League, PEO Sisterhood, and her children's school activities.

Edith later touched the lives of many young people in her 20 plus years of teaching. She began her career in education teaching English at East Texas Baptist College, now ETBU. From there she taught world history at Marshall High School in Marshall, Texas, English at Henderson High School in Henderson, Texas, world history at Willis High School in Willis, Texas, and over a decade teaching U.S. and Texas history at Lamar Junior High School in Rosenberg, Texas.

Edith was an avid hunter and fisherman during all of her years with Ronnie. Her other hobbies included reading, crosswords, cooking, and attending any and every event possible that involved her children and grandchildren.

Edith was preceded in death by her parents, husband of 37 years, Ronald Stephen Smith and his parents Horace Wade Smith and Allie Mildred Smith; brothers, Col. (ret.)Ted Clark Chilcote, Esq. and Dr. Timothy Alan Chilcote; niece, Claire Elizabeth Chilcote; and a number of other extended family members in the East Texas area.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Julianna and Calvin White of Richmond,Texas, her son and daughter-in-law, Wade and October Smith, of Rosenberg, Texas; her grandchildren, Stephen Wayne White and Suzanne Edith White of Richmond and Sydney Lynnanne Smith and Stacey Annalynn Smith of Rosenberg; sister-in-law, Patsy Chilcote of The Woodlands, Texas; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Susan and Leland Finney; nephews, David Chilcote and wife Ashley, Matt Finney, and Todd Finney and wife, Audra; and numerous friends in East Texas and Richmond-Rosenberg.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Calvary Episcopal School, 1201 Austin, Richmond, TX, 77469, where her granddaughters attend school and her daughter and daughter-in-law teach, or to the American Heart Association, PO Box 841125, Dallas, TX 75284-1125.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, March 29, 2014, at 10AM at the Garmany & Carden Funeral Directors Chapel, 1201 4th Street, Rosenberg, TX 77471.

Condolence messages may be written for the Smith family at www.garmanycarden.com

Services are under the direction of Garmany & Carden Funeral Directors, Inc., 1201 4th Street, Rosenberg, TX 77471 (281)342-4671.