Ines Smith

Visitation: Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City.

Funeral services: Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Miles City.

Interment: will be held at a later date.

Ines Smith, age 84, of Miles City passed away on January 3, 2005 at the Holy Rosary Health Center in Miles City.

Ines was born in New England, North Dakota on August 24, 1920, the daughter of Edward and Anna (Austinson) Ronning. They homesteaded in Rock Springs, north of Miles City. She attended country school in Rock Springs and in Miles City, graduating from Custer County High School in 1937. Following her graduation, she attended graduate school for secretarial training. Ines married Carl AlvinBrodston on August 26, 1937. They traveled all over Canada up to Alaska as Carl was working on the government buildingAlcan Highway. She returned to Rock Springs where she ran the Rock Springs Store & Post Office. She moved to Orange County, California and lived with Gladys and Amos Clark. She married Earl Smith in 1947 in California. She then began working for Hughes Aircraft and for Continental Kiewit Inc. as a paralegal. She retired at the age of 65 in 1985. She remained in Garden Grove, California until 1997 then moved back to Miles City where she has remained ever since. Ines enjoyed doing crossword puzzles, reading romance novels and read the newspaper from cover to cover. She loved musicals, dancing and loved to travel.

Ines is survived by her daughter, Barbara Hartman of Hemet, CA two brothers: Warren Ronning and his wife Elizabeth of Miles City, MT; Orville Ronning and his wife Kathleen of Miles City, MT; two sisters: Gladys Clark of Red Lodge, MT; and Dorothy Bakken of Glendale, CA; four grandchildren: David Knoles, Michael Knoles, Carrie Williams, and Terrance Robinson; four great grandchildren: Guillermo Giron, Amber Williams, Christopher Giron, and LitaKnoles; one great great grandson, Weston Williams; ex-husband Carl Brodston of Tacoma, WA; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.