Ronnie Robert Smith

Ronnie Robert Smith of Royal City, Washington, was called home to our Lord on Sunday morning, Oct. 2, at the age of 76. Ronnie passed away at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane following a courageous battle to recover from aorta surgery in early September. Ronnie was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan in 1945, to Robert and Dorothy Smith. Ronnie’s family moved to California in the early 1950s, where he graduated from Roosevelt High School in Fresno in 1964. He met his future bride, Joyce, in church and they married in December of 1967, after he and Joyce’s family moved to Washington state. Ronnie and Joyce settled in Washington state, where he worked in the logging industry for Weyerhauser, as a scaler, retiring in 2009, after 41 years of honorable employment.