Re: [PyrNet-L] Jeannie Smith

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/16/99 8:38:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dgg@star-telegram.com writes:

<< Longtime Pyr fancier and GPCA member Jeannie Smith passed away today in
 Texas. She was a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Great Pyrenees Club and
 a former member of the Mile High GPC.
 
 Darrell Goolsbee
 Fort Worth, TX >>

We have lost a major friend to the breed and a wonderful person.  Jeannie 
worked tirelessly on pedigrees.  She worked with Judy Brown on the 
titleholders and was a major contributor the Great Pyrenees Annual for many 
years.  Her health was very bad the past few years.  She told of how 
depression had just a few years ago consumed her and left her in complete 
desolation.  She poignantly described how she was rescued from her depression 
by a Pyr pup given to her by Mary Lou Mayer.  The dog was her life and the 
recipe for happiness for Jeannie.  To my knowledge Jeannie never had a 
computer, but did it all pedigree research the old fashioned way.  Incredible 
knowledge and a relentless drive to dig up those obscure pedigrees.  

All of us that knew and loved her will grieve for her.  A sad day for me to 
know of the loss of Jeannie Smith.

Joe