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onefrombills
03-25-2009, 10:35 PM
Jo Smith was WIBC member emerita, former YABA president

3/25/2009


By Mark Miller
USBC Communications


Jo Smith, a longtime Women's International Bowling Congress director, member emerita and former president of the Young American Bowling Alliance, died March 23 in Devil's Lake, N.D., at age 84.

Smith was first elected to the WIBC Board of Directors in 1977 and was re-elected every three years after that until she retired in 2001. She was elected a member emerita in 2002. She served as YABA president for two years beginning Aug. 1, 1997.

She is a member of the North Dakota USBC Women's Bowling Association Hall of Fame as well as the Lake Region USBC WBA Hall of Fame. She also earned the Marion Armey Award for service to junior bowling in North Dakota.

Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Gilbertson Funeral Home, 509 Highway 2 West, Devil's Lake, ND 58301. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, Sixth St. and Fifth Ave., Devil's Lake, ND 58301. Donations should be made to the church.