Service:
Blenheim Community Funeral Home
Thursday June 2, 2022
1:30 p.m.
Jim Smith of Blenheim passed away peacefully at the Blenheim Community Village on Monday May 30, 2022. Predeceased by his wife Mary Ellen (Zimmer) Smith in 2021, he will be missed by the people who meant most to him in life; his daughters Deb Brown (Bob) and Marg Bliss (Jeff), his sons Ron Smith, Bill Smith (Kat) and Wayne Smith, his grandchildren Matt Brown (Melissa), Karyn Varma (Vic), Drew Bliss, Dan Bliss (Alex), Chris Smith, Tawnya Smith, Aaron Smith, Nichole Smith, Dylan Smith and Bailey Smith as well as ten great-grandchildren. He will also be remembered by his sister Alberta Hunter (late Jack), his sister-in-law Kathy Smith (late Joe) and by Mary Ellen’s sisters Veronica Tanguay and Ruth Ann Spence (Ben). He was predeceased by his siblings Irene Carter (Harold), Grant Smith (Doris), Verna Gore (Phil), Glen Smith (Peggy), Herb Smith (Maxine) and an infant sister.
Jim retired after many years as a custodian at BDHS in Blenheim. He was a proud member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 185 in Blenheim and a member of the Colour Guard who loved nothing more than to don his kilt and march in a parade. He played the accordion and was also a member of the Chatham Belgian Dutch Club in Chatham.
Jim was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing, hunting and trapping. Aside from the annual fishing trip he and Mary Ellen would make to Manitoulin Island with Donna and Jim Burchiel, he raised rabbits, ducks and geese in his back yard and raced pigeons. Racing pigeons involved driving to an area with other racers, releasing your pigeons and then driving back home to clock the time it took for the birds to arrive home. When the pigeons arrived home, it became your own race to be the first one to call the other racers and give them the news. Those were great times for him.
Cremation has taken place. A Funeral Service for Jim will be held at the Blenheim Community Funeral Home on Thursday June 2, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. Interment will take place in Evergreen Cemetery.
Friends wishing to remember Jim with a memorial donation are asked to consider the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters, the Blenheim Legion or the Rondeau Rod & Gun Club.
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Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Jim Smith January 21 1933 May 30 2022..
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Death notice for the town of: Blenheim, Province: Ontario