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Sunday, April 11, 1999 Oakville Beaver Weekend 13 Mary Smithbower S t Andrew's organist, choir director and local journalist f She was quite a lady. Mary Smithbower was as at home filling St. Andrew's Catholic Church with sacred organ music, as she was in a newsroom tossing out opinion pieces and music reviews. At both pursuits she was gifted and discerning. Oakville will be a less musical, less humorous place with the passing of Smithbower, who died Monday at Allendale in Milton. She was 87. Whether you knew Smithbower through her job as organist at St. Andrew's, where she accompanied the choir and played at dozens of funerals and weddings over many years, or as a reader of the Daily Journal Record, the Oakville Journal Record or the Oakville Beaver, all of which Smithbower wrote for at one time, you will remember her great passion for music and foremost, her wit. She touched many people with her talent over the years - her piano stu­ dents, choristers and musicians. She also impressed readers with her tremen­ dous knowledge of the artform in her reviews. Upon her retirement from writ­ ing, both the (former) conductor of the Oakville Symphony Orchestra David Miller and Boris Brott, musical director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, praised Smithbower for her intricate insights and fair criticism. "First and foremost I will remember her for her music," said daughter Elaine Hanson. "She was such a talented musi­ cian." Son John said his mother loved all types of music. "She liked the classics. She also liked Oscar Peterson and when my brother and I would play some of our Beatles songs, she liked them." Smithbower was bom in London, Ontario, but raised and married in Hamilton. At the tender age of 14, she graduated from Loretto Academy in Hamilton with a scholarship to the University of Toronto and her music teaching certificate, ATOM. Despite the brilliant academic achievement, howev­ er, Smithbower was unable to attend because as the fifth of 12 children, the bus fare to Toronto proved too much for the family. "Her intelligence could have been channelled in many different direc­ tions," said Hanson. But her heart belonged to music and aside from teaching privately she did eventually teach at Havergal College in Toronto. Smithbower chose to stay at home and raise her three children when she married husband Joe in 1945 (Her husband pre-deceased her in 1984). When most people are considering retirement, Smithbower bravely enrolled in Sheridan College's Journalism program and graduated in 1971, among the top five in her class. Once again it was her sense of humor which eased her through a trying time as the oldest student in a class filled with youngsters sporting long hair and ear­ rings, said Hanson. The students grew to appreciate Smithbower and vice versa, added Hanson. 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