Graveside services for Margo Lee (Pierce) Smith, 93, rural Lawrence, will be at 2 pm Monday, November 14, 2022, at Memorial Park Cemetery. Chaplain Delmar White will officiate. Ms. Smith will lie in state Sunday from 8-8 at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. She passed away Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at LMH Health.
She was born January 22, 1929, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Harry H. and Willie Mulvaney Pierce. She graduated from Northeast High School in KCMO and later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Kansas.
Margo taught physical education at Haskell Indian Juco (now Haskell Indian Nations University) and later worked as a secretary at Riverside and East Heights elementary schools for Willie Amison. She enjoyed raising litters of Labrador pups and anything cattle related, and was an avid KU fan. Margo was a loving farm wife.
She married Leo Keller Smith Aug. 29, 1948, at Danforth Chapel on the KU campus. Leo worked on the Campanile on campus, and he and Margo were the first married graduates to walk through the Campanile. He preceded her in death in 2016, Survivors include a son, David Smith (Ramona Willits), Lawrence, and a daughter, Bobbi Reichart (Neill) of Alma, Kan.; four grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren.
