Edna M. Smith

Edna M. Smith Wife, mother, artist, and long-time Rochester resident, dies at 91 Edna M. Smith, age 91, of Estes Road, Rochester, died peacefully at home on August 14, 2015, surrounded by her family. Edna was born in 1924 in New York City, one of four children of Dr. John H. Morris and Edna O'Neill Morris, and was raised in Jackson Heights, New York. She was a 1946 graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in art history. After college she worked for several years at The Frick Collection in New York City. In 1950 Edna married Dr. Alexander C. Smith, also of New York. In 1952 they moved to Rochester, where they raised their six children and where Dr. Smith opened his general practice of medicine at a time when there were few local physicians. She had a deep appreciation for the personal bond between doctor and patient in traditional family medicine. She felt privileged to have played a vital support role in a busy rural practice, often recalling the patients who came to the...