March 29, 2024

Janie Smith

May 7, 2016

Janie Smith, 62, of Baxter died Saturday, May 7, 2016, at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

A memorial service will be at 2 p.m., Friday, May 13 at the Baxter Community High School Gym, 202 E. State in Baxter. The family will greet friends from 4:30 to 8 p.m., Thursday, May 12 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton.

A private family burial will be at a later date at the Restland Cemetery in Baxter. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the Baxter Rescue Unit. The memorials may be left at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory or at the Baxter Community High School Gym on the day of the memorial service. Memorials may also be mailed to the funeral home, please add Attn: Smith Family on the envelope.

Those left to cherish Janie’s memory are her husband, Stephen “Smitty” of Baxter; two sons, Jeremy (Misty) Smith and Justin (Kari) Smith, both of Baxter; her four grandchildren, Cole, Melodie, Carter and Cooper; father, Gary Pyle of Baxter; her brothers, David (Bebe) Pyle, Russ Pyle, both of Baxter, and Scott (Charlene) Pyle of Madrid; her sister-in-law, Brenda Pyle of Baxter; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her maternal and paternal grandparents; and mother, Carol in 1991.