About Barbara B. Smith
Lived 1922 – 2010 (aged 88). Barbara B. Smith was an American religious leader.
Barbara Bradshaw Smith (January 26, 1922 – September 13, 2010) was the tenth general president of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1974 to 1984. She was the first Relief Society General President to have been born in the 20th century.
Born on January 26, 1922, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Smith was the third of six children born to Dorothy Mills and Dan Delos Bradshaw. Smith graduated from South High School in 1940. She married Douglas H. Smith in the Salt Lake Temple on June 16, 1941. They were the parents of seven children.
Smith was succeeded by Barbara W. Winder in April 1984.
Smith died on September 13, 2010, after suffering from pulmonary fibrosis for a number of years.
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