Memorial services for Valborg E. Smith, age 94, formerly of Albert Lea, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, June 21, at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home. The Rev. Curtis Zieske will officiate. Interment will be in Carlston Cemetery, rural Alden. Visitation is one hour prior to the services at Bayview.

Val died Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2002, in Crossville, Tenn.

Valborg Elizabeth Smith was born Aug. 30, 1908, to Carl and Maren (Ravn) Mathiason in Alden. She attended school in Alden and graduated from Alden High School in 1926 and from Luther Academy in Albert Lea in 1927. Val worked as a secretary in Albert Lea until 1929 when she moved to Troy, N.Y. On March 2, 1935, she was united in marriage to Andrew J. Smith in Troy. Val was secretary to the business manager of the Lansingburgh Central School District for several years. She was active in the Leonard Hospital Auxiliary, the Lansingburgh Boys’ Club Auxiliary, the Red Cross blood program and the Danish Lutheran Church in Lansingburgh. After retiring, Andy and Val moved to Albert Lea in 1971 and joined Trinity Lutheran Church. Val was very active in the church, the circles, and Bible study. She was also a volunteer in the Meals-On-The-Go program and the Red Cross.

Survivors include her sons: Andrew and his wife Doris of Fairfield Glade, Tenn., and Ronald and his wife, June of Shrewsbury, Pa.; grandchildren: Karl Smith, Valerie Smith, Danielle Hale, Christopher and his wife Nicole Smith, Ward Smith and Andrew Smith; and several great-grandchildren. Also surviving are sisters: Betty Brandt of Tyler, Minn., Hilda and her husband Elvis Duncan of Alden, and Dagmar and her husband Allan Jacobson of Rice Lake, Wis.; brother, Anker and his wife Ardis Mathiason of Alden; sister-in-law, Stella Mathiason of Alden; and many nieces and nephews.

Val was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Andy; grandson, Kenneth Smith; sister, Astrid Mathiason; and brother, Arnold Mathiason.