Notes from Richard Smith:
“Margaret was married at an early age in the late 1930's. She divorced a few years later and remarried. She worked different jobs including Warwick China Factory, a waitress, a hobby shop, Kraus Stamping Plant, and a secretary and book keeper for City Window Cleaning Company. She later took over her mother's trailer park. She was a member of Aldersgate Methodist Church (former Chaplain Street Methodist Church) for over fifty years. Margaret Ann was divorced since 1951 and devoted her life to her children and her family. She later said that it was her children who gave her the most happiness. She loved to be in her garden where she could cultivate and see things grow. She was especially fond of her rose garden just outside her bedroom window. She would say that she could smell the roses as she was waking. She also loved wild flowers, and when she would return from her daughter Judy's house in Frederick, MD, she would bring back those flowers and she would pamper them in her garden. Margaret was cremated and laid to rest at Parkview Memorial Gardens in June of 1998. Richard had already returned to Germany; Judy, Jackie, granddaughter Michele were present to put her to rest. At Richard's request a little of her ashes were placed in her rose garden near her bedroom window. She will always be part of that ground, still nurturing the roses.”

Obituary, Wheeling (WV) News Register, May 4, 1998:
“Margaret Ann Smith, who was a former owner of Long's Trailer Court in Wheeling, died Sunday, May 3, 1998, in Wheeling Hospital. She was 76. A resident of Wheeling, she was born December 23, 1921, in Sistersville, W.Va. Smith, who owned Long's Trailer Court for approximately 20 years, was also a retired secretary of City Window Cleaning Company, and a member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church.
She was preceded in death by her companion of 35 years, James R. Wolfe; her father, Homer Smith; her mother, Gertrude Marie Rawson Long; her stepfather, Norman Long; two brothers, John E. and Gay H. Smith; a sister, Delores V. Bosold.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. S. Edward (Judith A.) Pickens of Frederick, Md., and Mrs. Robert L. (Jacqueline) Wren of Wheeling; a son, Richard F. Smith of Berschweiler, Germany; a brother-in-law, Francis "Pete" Bosold of Newcomerstown, Ohio; a sister-in-law, Mary Smith of Mount Olivet; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Friends received 2-4 and 7-9 P.M. Tuesday at Altmeyer Funeral Home, 1400 Eoff Street., Wheeling. Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2318 Chapline Street., Wheeling, with the Rev. Douglas E. Liston officiating. Interment will be at Park View Memorial Gardens, Wheeling, at the convenience of the family.
Memorial contributions may be made to Aldersgate United Methodist Church.”