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Myrna Lee Smith of Duluth passed away on December 8 at age 87 at St. Luke’s Hospice. Myrna was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she met and married her high school sweetheart, Orvie Townsend. Together they raised six children. She enjoyed camping trips and road trips with her family, hauling six kids in a camper around Canada and South Dakota. Myrna was a maker. She made every place she lived a home, made wonderful meals, baked, made and mended clothes, crocheted, did needlepoint, grew wonderful gardens, and more recently enjoyed diamond painting. Her most proud creation was her six kids. She loved her kids unconditionally and was proud of everything they accomplished, however great or humble. She cherished her years working at Glass Block downtown. She married Jim Smith in 1978, and they had a happy life together, living and working for several years in Boise, Idaho, then returning to Duluth where she became the resident manager at Chester Grove Apartments. She lo ....