Thomas Eastwood Smith Jr., Retired Colonel Department of the Army, passed away on Saturday, June 15th of natural causes. He was born on August 22nd 1923 to Thomas E. Smith Sr. and Anna E. Newhouser in Holdrege Nebraska. He grew up in North Platte, Nebraska. Colonel Smith served in the 70th Infantry Division in World War II and was employed with the Department of Defense at the 89th Army Reserve, retiring in 1983. He married Rose Marie Osborne on May 19th, 1946 in Marysville, Kansas. They had two children Thomas E. Smith III and Pamela Lee Smith. Thomas III died in Wichita in 1984 and Pamela currently resides in Seattle, Washington. Rose Marie died in Wichita in 1987. He is survived by five grandchildren from this marriage: Thomas E. Smith IV, Kristina Marie Smith, Jennifer Leigh Smith, Mollie Lauren Smith and Jacob James Antonin Smith. In 1994, he married Evelyn Long Yankton. Evelyn died in Wichita in 2002. Thomas is survived by four step-children from this marriage: Sheryl Schubert, Margaret Whelan, Trudy Fick and Lyle Yankton. He is also survived by five great-grandchildren: Marc Emanuel Thomas Stephens, Emerson Robert Newhouser Utter, Jackson Caporaso Smith and Thomas E. Smith V. Thomas was affiliated with numerous hereditary societies with which he held local, state and national offices. He was a two term president of the Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society of Wichita and served in numerous offices for the Sons of the American Revolution. Services to be held Thursday June 20th, 10:30am, at Calvary United Methodist Church: 2525 N Rock Rd, Wichita KS. A Memorial has been established with Calvary United Methodist Church. GP' was a generous, loving and affable pillar of our family and will be sorely missed.