Faith Crandall (Jarvis) Smith, of Hingham, who died on May 8, 2012, was born May 27, 1941, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Prudence (Crandall) and Frank Washington Jarvis. She grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and graduated from Madeira School and Stanford University. After working in New York City at John Wiley as a staff editor and Harper & Row in juvenile books, she and her husband, Craig Edward Smith, moved to Kent, Connecticut, Rumson, New Jersey, and finally Groton, Massachusetts, where they lived for 28 years at Groton School.
A free-lance editor and writer in the Boston area for many years, she published poetry and short stories in the Christian Science Monitor, The Episcopalian, Upstate New York, Worcester Telegram, among others. She edited trade publications, high-school textbooks, and scholarly work, especially at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Faith also received a Certificate in Landscape Design History from Radcliffe Institute and spent many hours in her garden. She tutored boys for 18 summers at Camp Susquehannock in Pennsylvania.
Faith was a member of the Groton Garden Club, the New England Poetry Club, the Groton Historical Society, and had been a puppy raiser for Guiding Eyes for the Blind. After she and Craig retired to Hingham, Massachusetts, Faith became a board member of the Garden Club of Hingham and the Hingham Historical Society, working actively in the latter’s Archives. She was also a member of the Needlepoint Guild at St. John’s and a volunteer in the book delivery program at Hingham Public Library. She and Craig were parishioners of the Episcopal Parish of St. John the Evangelist in Hingham.
She is survived by her husband, Craig, of 48 years; her brother, F. Washington Jarvis of Dorchester; her sons Craig Edward Smith, Jr., and his wife, Kristin, of Houston, Texas; and Benjamin George Jarvis Smith and his wife, Stacey of Acton; and her daughter Cricket Smith Segaloff and her husband, Brett of Harvard; and five grandchildren: Catie, Annie, Timmy, Sarah, and Teddy. Visiting hours on Friday evening will be from 7 - 9 PM at the Downing Cottage Funeral Chapel, 21 Pond St., Hingham. The funeral will be held at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, 172 Main St., Hingham, on Saturday, May 12th at 11:00 AM, and there will be a reception at the Church following the service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Faith’s memory to the Trustees of Reservations, 227 East St., Hingham, MA 02043 or St. John’s Episcopal Church. The interment is private.