She remains unrepentant for keeping the fifth and sixth graders out late so they could see the lighted monuments, and for instructing bus drivers to pass the Washington D. C. Hard Rock Cafe very slowly for her granddaughter Dawn and her classmates. An unexpected pleasure as a grandmother was coaching a boy's soccer team. When Scott, now 22, lost interest, his grandmother kept going as a soccer coach in the field behind the house. Smith dragooned onto the youth soccer coaching staff. As the boys grew older, Smith watched the high school soccer teams drill behind her home, running between the hay bales her son Tim Smith set up behind the barn.
Kids are fun.
While he was away early in the mornings at his U. S. Postal Service job, he knew she was up early to finish her home chores before she set off on her rounds. He would ask his wife each day about what good things she did that day. Martha Smith appreciates her husband's constant encouragement to go out, meet her friends and keep up with her volunteer work. She met Joe Smith through mutual friends when she was traveling from Rittman to attend Wadsworth High School classes. They bought the farm on Leatherman Road 50 years ago.