Charles Henry Weston Smith was a sharp-witted, sure-footed Albert County man who died on December 8, 2010, of age and a life lived fully. He was 92 years old. Charlie had a knack for raising things: strong independent children, roofs and chickens. He was a dynamite expert with a delicate touch who danced across Canada with the Fundy Tidal Twirlers. Charlie had passion for the Petitcodiac River, kept a garden and a scrap yard, hunted, fished the great rivers of New Brunswick and walked on his hands when he felt like it. He worked as a civil engineer for the CNR, ran Charles Smith Construction and the Greenwood Lodge Campground. He boxed, skied and skated until finally, the spitting flame burned out. Charlie is survived by his second wife Mayme Weston and her children, Brenda Cooper, Shelia Haley, Nancy Kendrick, Vickie Carter, Brian Weston and their families, as well as John Weston who resided with them; by his children Vonnie Mann, Pamela Nelson, Heather Berry, Daniel Smith, Cathy McCabe, whose mother Ethel Louise Amos Smith died in 2006, and their families; and by his siblings Cyril George Smith, Jim Smith, Margaret Peggy Appleby and Blaikie Rowsell. They are predeceased by their brother Douglas Smith.
You are welcome to pay respect to Charlie and the family at Cobb's Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 330 Whitepine Rd., Riverview (869-2007), between 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm on Sunday, December 12, 2010. We invite you to share our memorial service at Cobb's Funeral Home Memorial Chapel, on Monday, December 13 at 2:00 PM. Later, Charlie's ashes will be buried at the Alma United Cemetery beneath a stone from the old Gunningsville Bridge. Charlie liked generous gestures and rather than offer flowers in his memory, he would prefer you helped the little ones through donations to the Boys and Girls Club of your choice. Online condolences can be made at www.cobbsfuneralhome.ca