Passed peacefully away in the early hours of December 30, 2016, Olive Hannah Smith, aged 88. A much beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother and Aunt. Predeceased by her parents Charles and Blanche (Moss) Fry as well as her siblings: Harvey, Rose, Pearl, Jim, Charles, William, Maxwell (aka Rod) and Cyril Smith (her children's father). Leaving to mourn are her children: Linda Lynch, (Kenneth), Barbara Soper, Derrick Smith, Lorraine Jackson (Stephen), Charlotte Ivey (Ken); her grandchildren: David (Neala), Michael (Tina), Rodney, Charlotte (fiancée Pat), Nicholas, Rebecca, Julia (Coady), Derrick Jr., Lexley, Ben, and Dallas; great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews in the Smith and Fry families. The Smith family would like to extend a special thank you to the medical staff at St. Clare's Hospital. At Olive's request cremation has taken place. A graveside service will be held at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on Monday, January 2, 2016 at 11 a.m. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made in Olive's memory to the NL Heart and Stroke Foundation. Please visit www.barretts.ca to sign the on line memorial guest book.

Gone From My Sight
by Henry Van Dyke
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load
of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says,
"There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
And that is dying...