Elizabeth Montali Smith McKenzie ’48

Elizabeth Montali Smith McKenzie ’48, of Annapolis, Md., formerly of Warren, R.I.; Feb. 5. She met and married her first husband, Peirce Baker Smith ’49, while attending Brown. She was the May Queen and president of the Student Government Association and remained active with Brown, participating in many commencement marches down College Hill. She raised a family and was involved with the Attleboro Community Theatre before becoming an art history teacher at the House in the Pines School (Mass.) in the early 1970s. She later was a docent at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She enjoyed playing tennis and received many trophies for her playing. In 1988, she and Peirce purchased an old farm house in Warren that they renovated and she remained there until 2011, although Peirce passed away in 1999. She was very involved in the Warren community. In 2008, she remarried and moved to Annapolis. She enjoyed playing duplicate bridge and solving the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, a son and daughter-in-law, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, a stepdaughter, a stepson, and a niece and nephew.