Trying to add a payment method? You can do this on the Calvin Edwin Smith, age 77, passed away peacefully at the Pete Moore Hospice House from complications of diabetes.
He was born in Eugene in 1949 to his parents June Merrell Smith and Dale Smith. Calvin was a lifelong Eugenian and Oregonian. He attended Eugene schools, Lane Community College and the University of Oregon. He spent the early days of his working life as a student and instructor at Maude Kerns Art Center.
He was an accomplished artist and potter. He also worked at The Small Farmer’s Journal. The majority of his career was spent as the manager of The Zebra Fish International Resource Center at the University of Oregon. This was a job that he loved and felt strongly about. He was not at all materialistic and was very environmentally conscious.
He cared very much about his family and leaves behind his younger sister, Nadine Smith , and older brother Forrest Smith (Mary), both of Eugene, and various nieces and nephews in the Portland area and in Missoula, Montana. He was preceded in death by his father, Dale, his mother, June and his older sister, Madelaine.
