Doris Christine Smith

Doris Christine Smith, age 90, of St Augustine, passed away in the presence of her family on Monday, January 28, 2019, at the Bailey Family Center for Caring. Known as Dottie, she was born Doris Noyes in Cranston, Rhode Island and resided in New England most of her life. Dottie is a descendant of Richard Warren, a Mayflower passenger & signer on the Mayflower Compact. After graduating high school, she married and had three children with Charles A Smith. The family has fond memories of summers at a lake resort. In addition to homemaking, she worked several other jobs over her life, including working at North American Philips from which she retired after 30 years. Dottie relocated to Florida in 2012, and moved to St Augustine a year later to be nearer her family. She is a Christian woman, most of her life in the Episcopalian faith, at the time of death Dottie was a member at Trinity Episcopal Parish in St Augustine. She was predeceased by her parents David Henry Noyes and Doris Grace Noyes (Johnson), brothers Julian Leonard and Norman David. She is survived and will be much missed by her sister Sandra Kay Calverley (Charles) of MA, daughter, Sandra Charlene King of Daytona, two sons, Charles Albert, Jr (Judy) of St Augustine and Robert Andrew of the Netherlands; two granddaughters, April Christine Samuelson of Virginia and Serenity Jean Dow of Daytona; step grandson, Patrick F. Purcell; great-grandchildren, Christopher Bailey, Sadie Lavoie, Samantha Dow and Jade Cote; a great-great-grandson, Jasper Lavoie and several nieces and nephews. She was very much a part of all of their lives and involved in being a mother to both siblings and offspring. Services will be held at Trinity Episcopal Parish, 215 St George Street, St Augustine at 2pm on Thursday February 7, with her ashes returned to the earth in the Memorial Garden at Trinity Episcopal Parish. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations in Doris's name to either Trinity Episcopal Parish (Memorial Garden Fund), 215 St George Street, St Augustine, FL 32084 or to Bailey Family Center for Caring, c/o Community Hospice & Palliative Care, 4266 Sunbeam Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257 or online at support.communityhospice.com.

Doris Christine Smith

June 17, 1928 - January 28, 2019