{"id":11484,"date":"2025-06-03T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=11484"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:43:04","slug":"lois-smith-92-of-altamont-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/11484-lois-smith-92-of-altamont-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lois Smith (92) of Altamont"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Lois Smith, 92, of Altamont, died at 1:28 a.m. Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at her home.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, June 21, 2025 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, rural Altamont with Rev. Marcus Manley officiating. Memorials may be made to Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Gieseking Funeral Home, Altamont is assisting the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Lois Fay Smith was born in St. Louis to Gustav and Freda (Femmer) Pries. She was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church. She was retired as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by; her sons, Richard (Joy) Bolin, Dalton Gardens, ID, Stephen (Sandy) Bolin, Lakeside, CA, and Timothy (Tammy) Bolin, Patoka; daughters, Katherine (Gary) Grobengieser, Mason and Anna (Gary) Goldstein, Altamont; 16 grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren, and 1 great-great grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed at www.giesekingfh.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lois died the morning of Tuesday, April 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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