This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH, McAFEE Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AY.2ADE/1050 Message Board Post: Norma M. Smith Norma McAfee Smith, a retired UC Davis librarian, died March 31, 2001, at Kaiser Hospital in Sacramento. She was 91. She was born in Stockton to James and Nina McGaffey McAfee and grew up in Berkeley, graduating from UC Berkeley. She was a receptionist/docent at the Ansel Adams Gallery in San Francisco and worked for the Park Service until World War II, when she became an executive secretary at the Richmond Tank Depot. She met her future husband, George Smith, at that time, and they were married in 1942. He was a gunner on a B-17 bomber, assigned to Europe. His plane was shot down over Germany and he was a prisoner of war for two years. After the war ended, they moved to Montana, where he earned a degree and then began teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, and she worked in the campus bookstore. They lived on a houseboat on Lake Union. He was co-author of the "Handbook of English Grammar" by Perrin and Smith. When his health began to fail, they moved to Berkeley; he died in 1960. She returned to UC Berkeley to earn a master's degree in library science and joined the staff of Shields Library in 1966 as a cataloguer. She retired in 1976. She volunteered with the UCD Arboretum, where she organized the library and in 1980 it was named the Norma Smith Arboretum Library. She was also involved with the Pence Gallery, Davis Art Center and The Friends of Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, and was a life member of the UC Berkeley Alumni Association. She lived at Covell Gardens in Davis from 1992 until her death. She is survived by a grandniece and two grandnephews. A memorial service is pending. (Obituary from the "The Davis Enterprise," Friday, April 6, 2001, (Yolo County). Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616, <http://www.davisenterprise.com/>. Please note: I am not related to the family listed above, and I do not have any further information on this family.)