Education
Smith graduated from South High School in 1940.
Smith graduated from South High School in 1940.
She was the first Relief Society general president to have been born in the 20th century. Born on January 26, 1922, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Smith was the third of six children born to Dorothy Mills and Dan Delos Bradshaw. In 1974, Smith succeeded Belle South. Spafford, who had been the Relief Society general president for nearly thirty years, after being appointed to the position in 1945.
Prior to her becoming Relief Society general president, Smith had served on a variety of general boards in the same organization.
Smith also used her position to actively oppose the recruitment of women into the United States military and the spread of abortion, which had been legalized in the United States in 1973. Smith was succeeded by Barbara West. Winder in April 1984.
Smith married Douglas H. Smith in the Salt Lake Temple on June 16, 1941. They were the parents of seven children.
Smith died on September 13, 2010, after suffering from pulmonary fibrosis for a number of years.