Larry Smith

A celebration of life will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at New Life Church in Springfield, for Larry D. “Butch” Smith of Springfield, who died Feb. 2 of a stroke. He was 66. Inurnment will be at the Goshen Grange 561 Cemetery.

He was born May 7, 1943, in Seaside, to Lawrence and Evelyn Arnold Smith. He married Christine Reed May 26, 2001, in Springfield.

He received a bachelor’s degree in education from Oregon State University. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant at the Lackland Air Force Base Communications Center in Texas.

He worked in the family aquarium and tourist businesses as a youth, and later as a paint store manager and as a high school teacher.  Larry was the author of his own book.

Survivors include his wife; his parents; a son, Jason Paul Smith Rosenberg (and his wife Elizabeth “Rosie”) of Eugene; a stepson, Benjamin Ernie Reed of Middlebrook, Va.; two brothers, David Smith of Maui, Hawaii, and Stephen Smith (and his wife Marilyn Denise) of Olympia, Wash.; and one granddaughter, Laura Elizabeth “Beth” Rosenburg.

Arrangements by Andreason’s Cremation & Burial Service in Springfield. Remembrances to New Life Church Benevolent Fund in Springfield.

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