Rise Smith

Sept. 16, 1952 - March 4, 2025

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Risë Louise Smith, age 72, of San Diego, California passed away on March 4 at home with her loving family. Risë was born on September 16, 1952 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the youngest daughter of Leah Loretta (Nyffeler) Smith and Dallas Fisher Smith. She graduated from Elmhurst High School in Fort Wayne as salutatorian, earned a BA from Kalamazoo College in 1974, an MA in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1976, and returned there for additional coursework in web usability design sixteen years later. She earned a Masters in Library Science at San Jose State University in 1981. She married Eugene Allan Fosnight on October 30, 1973 in Seoul, South Korea, where Gene was stationed in the military, and they celebrated 51 years of peace, harmony, and adventure in marriage. Their daughter Teal Helena Fosnight Smith was born on July 27, 1982. She and her husband D. Lee Thomsen have two sons Anden Rhys and Osian Henrik Thomsen. Upon Risë and Gene’s retirement in 2016, they joined Teal and her family in San Diego. What a joy it was for Risë to be close to her family and what fun Grandma had with Anden and Osh in the years since! After finishing at the University of Michigan in 1979, Gene and

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