Jennifer Ann Smith

Jennifer Ann Smith, 66, of Wilmington, Del., died October 10, 2026 in Wilmington Hospital after a short illness.

She was born in Charleston, W. Va., in 1960, the daughter of Bennett Smith and Margaret Davis Smith. For the past seven years she was a resident of the Kutz Home in Wilmington.

Jenny was a graduate of Brandywine High School, class of 1978, and later attended Neumann College where she received a B.A. degree in liberal arts.

She loved doing arts and crafts projects, board games, card games, crosswords, MGM musicals and awful puns, the cornier the better.

Jenny was a long-time member of the local Latin Mass organization, the Regina Coeli Society of St. Patrick’s Church.

Survivors include her father, Bennett Smith, and a sister, Diana (Mrs. John) George of Boothwyn, Pa.  Her mother, Margaret (Peggy) Smith, died in 2016, and sister, Dorothy, died in 2009.

A Requiem Latin Low Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, October 16, at St. Patrick’s Church, 1414 N. King Street in Wilmington.  Friends and family are invited for a visitation beginning at 9 a.m.  Interment will be in the family cemetery in Keyser, W, Va.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Delaware Right to Life, P.O. Box 1222, Wilmington, DE 19899, or Birthright of Delaware, 1311 North Scott Street, Wilmington, DE 19806.