Family of Henry Albert SMITH and Carole PRICE

Husband: Henry Albert SMITH

	Henry Albert SMITH

Wife: Carole PRICE

	Carole PRICE

Child 1: Toianne SMITH

	Toianne SMITH		Spouse: Steve HENRY

Note on Husband: Henry Albert SMITH

Henry Albert, "Hank" Smith was born April 2O, 1936, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Linnie and Henry Albert, Smith Senior. While in the Air Force he was stationed at Manhattan Beach Air Force Station in Brooklyn, New York. His foreign service was spent in Paris, France. In Paris, Hank attended the Pan American Art School from 1957 to 1961 in New York, New York. In April, 1969, Hank opened the Hank Smith Art Gallery and Gift Center on 30th and Main in Kansas City, Missouri. His gallery exhibited paintings and sculptures of his and the art work of other community artists. In February 3, 1972, Hank appeared in Jet magazine. In Color ado, Hank exhibited his work at Cave of the Wind each sum-

mer in the early 1980's and was commissioned to do a sculpture depicting the two boys who discovered the cave. In the summer of 1989 and 199O Hank was sculptor in resident at

Mount Rushmore. As part of the tour he explained his craft and the tools he used. He would then contrast his tools with those used by Gutzon Borglum. Hank was commissioned to create a sculpture in Bismarck, North Dakota as a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. On January 22, 1991 goven-nor George Sinner of North Dakota unveiled Hank's sculpture of a liberty bell with faces of different races.

Hank leaves to mourn his homegoing four children: Rick Smith of Olathe, Kansas, Keith Smith of Manhattan, New York, Toianne Henry of Kansas City, Kansas and Tauvia Smith of Loveland Colorado; wife: Dinah Bradley Smith of Loveland, Colorado; brother: Clifton Smith of Gibsonton, Florida; sister: Kathy Hunt of Kansas City, Missouri and four grandchil-dren.