Carol Jackson Smith
WILLIAMSBURG Through nearly 10 decades, nearly 98 years until she passed Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, from the turmoil of the Great Depression through the COVID-19 pandemic, Carol Jackson Smith brightened the lives of her loving family and countless friends who knew her through time and across the miles.
To meet Carol, even once, was to become her dance partner. She was genuinely interested in every person who knocked on, or came through her door. And, if that didn’t happen, she would spot you through a window and shout, “hello!” Carol loved life, loved living, and lived to love others.
She caught the eye of Robert “Bob” Smith in the post World War II years when they worked together at a local theater. Married in 1949, they brought Carol Dawn (spouse: Richard), Rob (spouse: Shirley), and Donna (spouse: Mike) into the world and built a loving home as they traveled with Bob’s T.V. career on the East Coast and Midwest.