Edwina 'Eddy' K. Smith

After a long and courageous but futile struggle with dementia, Edwina (Eddy) Krol Smith passed away on November 1, 2020 while surrounded by her loving family and a resident in the Skilled Nursing Memory Unit of Normandy Farms Estates Retirement Community in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. She was 77 years old. The oldest of four children, Eddy was born in Chicago on December 18, 1942, the daughter of Dr. Edward J. and Anne (Shirvin) Krol. She graduated from Loyola University in Chicago where she earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mathematics. Eddy taught Math at Montgomery County Community College for 32 years and advanced to full Professor. She was respected by her colleagues and loved by her students. She tutored many nieces and nephews as they coped with math courses during high school and college. A woman of many talents, she enjoyed shopping, gardening, sewing, knitting, and crocheting blankets for Project Linus. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, first in construction then in the Norristown ReStore. During her empty nest years, she indulged her passion for travel and visited such places as China, Africa, Iceland, and took European river cruises. Eddy’s greatest joy was her family. She especially delighted in her grandchildren. She was a fun and active “Mom-Mom,” always taking the grandchildren on educational and recreational trips, outings to local attractions, trick or treating in costume with them and doing fun crafts. A beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Eddy was also a compassionate, sensitive, and dear friend to many. Eddy is survived by her husband of almost 53 years, Dr. Louis J Smith; daughter, Kelly Yetter and husband Scott; daughter Andrea Galambos; 5 grandchildren – Rachael Donnelly, Sarah and Brett Galambos, and Olivia and Luke Yetter; a great-granddaughter, Aurora Anne Horan; and sister Cynthia Krol Owen and brother Gerald Krol, both living in the Chicago area. Services and burial will be private.