Jerry Ronald Smith

Jerry Ronald Smith, age 60, passed on November 5, 2011. He entered this life on August 17, 1951, in Lamar, Colorado, to parents J.R. and Mary Smith. He was the youngest of 3 children the only son who joined his two sisters, Elizabeth Jane and Mary Katherine. He was preceded in death by grandparents, Betty and Olen Hughs of Sprngfield, Colorado and Leslie and Elizabeth Smith of Durant, Oklahoma. Jerry attended school in Springfield, Colorado graduating in 1970, having been selected as an All-State football player. He married Paula Harris in 1973, and to this union was born Rosalind Raye and Jordon Boe. He loved the cowboy life, and he always appreciatd being around and training horses. He liked being a mountain man when he could, and a desert man when he couldn't. Jerry was a man dedicated to fulfilling what made him happy. He died with no regrets. Jerry was a story-teller, and he had a million to tell. He lived life by his own set of rules, which sometimes differed from the rules of society. When he erred, he paid the piper. He hardly ever encountered a strnage, and he seldom forgot a face or name. It had been said that Jerry was born a century early. He is survived by his children Rosalaind of La Junta, Colorado and Jordon and his wife, Lesa of Delmar, Iowa his sisters; Beth Shew and her husband, Derrell, and their family; Kay Mooney and her husband, Ronnie and their children; and parents, J.R. and Mary Smith of Sprngfield, Colorado. The following is a letter Jerry worte to his mother in 2004: I feel my time in nearing the end. I don't want anyone to be sad or cry. As I celebrated life all of my life. I worked on the seas, saw South America, the Caribbean, plus the Persian Gulf. I have ventured to pack in the High Lonesome of the Rock Mountains, when I am there I feel next to God. In between I was privleged to be able to get on and ride most of them, the best bucking horses in the contry. I was blessed to be able to run race horses all over the country. I fathered two of the best kids any man could. I love my family.