Jean Landon Smith, born Jean Ingersoll Landon on Aug. 5, 1923, passed on July 4 of natural causes at the age of 96. Jean lived in Guilford most of her life and moved to Florida to retire. She loved her husband Stoddard Minor Smith and family of three children, Glenn, Jeff, and Alden, and four grandchildren.

Jean was a woman who used her life to serve other people in need. She was a veteran and proud of her service to this country in the Army Nurse Corps in WWII, serving in the Philippines, Guam, and finally Japan at the end of the WWII. Her career as head nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the children’s leukemia ward was hard but fulfilling for her drive to help others.

After retiring, Jean was active in the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Tequesta, Florida and served in the Red Cross’s humanitarian efforts well into her 80’s, going to more than 60 disasters such as 911, Katrina, Guam, Philippines, and many others around the US and the world. She received the Clara Barton Meritorious Volunteer Award in 2002; her service to the Red Cross will not be forgotten.

Jean was also a member of the Military Order of the Cooties and VA posts in Florida and VA Honor Guard. She was a woman born to help others. She will be missed by her family, and all those who knew her, and will rest in Alder Brook Cemetery in Guilford.