Priscilla Martha Croner Smith

Priscilla Martha Croner Smith, 60, formerly of La Grande, died Feb. 17 in Boise. A celebration of her life was held Feb. 25. Burial was at Rivers Cemetery in Payette, Idaho.

She was born May 30, 1950, in New York, N.Y. With her father in the military, her mother, Norma Jean Leonard, traveled with Priscilla and her older siblings across the country to settle in La Grande.

She married her high school sweetheart, Rodger Smith, in 1968. As newlyweds, they moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where Rodger was stationed as an airman. It was in Alaska that she developed her lifelong love of travel and adventure and also where she began working in a bank - a career she loved.

The couple moved to Boise in the early 1970s where she began working as a bank teller and worked her way up to operations manager. She had two children, Andrea Jean Smith born in 1974 and Eric Harvey Smith, born in 1979.

The family moved to Denver in 1983. Because she did not have a college degree, she once again began her work as an entry-level employee and again worked her way up, this time to operations officer, at Colorado National Bank.

She loved the historic bank buildings she worked at over the years and spent a number of years in the historic downtown branch of the US Bank upon her return to Boise in 1990. She remarried in 1992 and during their 10-year marriage, she and her husband shared many adventures - fly fishing, hunting and traveling around the world. Priscilla's travel adventures included climbing the Great Wall of China, being one of the last people to climb to the top of Chitzen Itza in Mexico and going with her sister, Patti Comstock, to Thailand.

She is survived by her children, Andrea Phillips and Eric Smith; grandchildren; and siblings, Gordon Leonard, Rob Leonard, Patti Comstock, Mary Creson and David Leonard.

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