Rose Marie (Bell) Smith

Rose Marie Smith, an 87 year old Trenton, MO resident, passed away at 12:13 a.m., Thursday, October 12, 2023 at Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.

Memorial graveside services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m., Monday, October 16, 2023 at Miller Cemetery in Denver, MO.  Memorial donations may be made to Three Rivers Hospice and may be left with or mailed to Slater Neal Funeral Home in Trenton.

Rose Marie Smith was born January 5, 1936 in Pattonsburg, MO, one of 13 children to Claude Henderson and Esther Ellen (Powell) Bell. On June 14, 1952 she was united in marriage to Frank Dixion Smith in Pattonsburg, MO.  He preceded her in death on May 31, 1993.  She worked as a line leader at a cap sewing factory and then Walmart.  Rose was active with the V.F.W. Ladies Auxillary and enjoyed bowling.  In 2014 she moved to Trenton, where she has been an active member of the Tenth Street Baptist Church.

Surviving relatives include her sons Bill Smith and Phillip Bell both of Trenton, sisters June Ruff of Maysville, MO, and Shirley Knott of Coffey, MO, grandchildren Aubrey Burns and husband Frank of Red Oak, IA, Autumn Hoskins and husband Lonnie of Platte City, MO, Jay Bell and significant other Neile of Stanberry, MO, and Brandon Bell and wife Halley of Darlington, MO, and special other family Michelle Lynch, Brittany Shockley and husband David, Sidney Lynch, Chandler Lynch, Kenzie Lynch, Kennedy Lamb, and Dillon Burns, Baker Shockley.

Those preceding her in death include her parents, husband, two sons, Charles Bell and David Smith, ten siblings and companion Billy Rumans.

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