Matthew Artell Smith passed away on July 17, 2012, in Springville, UT. Matt was born on September 2, 1952, in Passaic, New Jersey to Franklin Artell and Elfriede Eppelsheimer Smith. After Elfriede passed in 1955, Matt's father remarried Lois Crisbacher. He grew up in New Jersey and New York until he graduated from high school in 1970. He then served a full-time LDS mission in Tahiti, French Polynesia from 1971-1972.
He met his wife and eternal companion Susan Kay Clements at Brigham Young University and they married in 1975. He received his Bachelor's degree in English and his Master's degree in Organizational Behavior both from BYU. He and his family spent 20 years living in Minnesota where he specialized in leadership training. They moved to Utah in 2001 where he worked as Director of Human Resource Development at BYU until his death.
Matt was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as a bishop, stake president, and various other positions in the church. He loved nothing more than serving in the mission field, especially as he served as mission president in Tahiti from 2008-2011. Having served two missions there, he developed a great love for the islands, its people, and missionary work. He was a true missionary at heart.
Matt loved people and had a great awareness of the individual. His charismatic energy and innate ability to remember names helped make everyone feel loved. He also loved languages, speaking fluent French and Tahitian while studying many other languages. He was an avid sports enthusiast, with an unparalleled knowledge in Dodgers trivia.
Published in Deseret News on July 19, 2012
He met his wife and eternal companion Susan Kay Clements at Brigham Young University and they married in 1975. He received his Bachelor's degree in English and his Master's degree in Organizational Behavior both from BYU. He and his family spent 20 years living in Minnesota where he specialized in leadership training. They moved to Utah in 2001 where he worked as Director of Human Resource Development at BYU until his death.
Matt was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as a bishop, stake president, and various other positions in the church. He loved nothing more than serving in the mission field, especially as he served as mission president in Tahiti from 2008-2011. Having served two missions there, he developed a great love for the islands, its people, and missionary work. He was a true missionary at heart.
Matt loved people and had a great awareness of the individual. His charismatic energy and innate ability to remember names helped make everyone feel loved. He also loved languages, speaking fluent French and Tahitian while studying many other languages. He was an avid sports enthusiast, with an unparalleled knowledge in Dodgers trivia.
Published in Deseret News on July 19, 2012
Matthew Artell Smith passed away on July 17, 2012, in Springville, UT. Matt was born on September 2, 1952, in Passaic, New Jersey to Franklin Artell and Elfriede Eppelsheimer Smith. After Elfriede passed in 1955, Matt's father remarried Lois Crisbacher. He grew up in New Jersey and New York until he graduated from high school in 1970. He then served a full-time LDS mission in Tahiti, French Polynesia from 1971-1972.
He met his wife and eternal companion Susan Kay Clements at Brigham Young University and they married in 1975. He received his Bachelor's degree in English and his Master's degree in Organizational Behavior both from BYU. He and his family spent 20 years living in Minnesota where he specialized in leadership training. They moved to Utah in 2001 where he worked as Director of Human Resource Development at BYU until his death.
Matt was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as a bishop, stake president, and various other positions in the church. He loved nothing more than serving in the mission field, especially as he served as mission president in Tahiti from 2008-2011. Having served two missions there, he developed a great love for the islands, its people, and missionary work. He was a true missionary at heart.
Matt loved people and had a great awareness of the individual. His charismatic energy and innate ability to remember names helped make everyone feel loved. He also loved languages, speaking fluent French and Tahitian while studying many other languages. He was an avid sports enthusiast, with an unparalleled knowledge in Dodgers trivia.
Published in Deseret News on July 19, 2012
He met his wife and eternal companion Susan Kay Clements at Brigham Young University and they married in 1975. He received his Bachelor's degree in English and his Master's degree in Organizational Behavior both from BYU. He and his family spent 20 years living in Minnesota where he specialized in leadership training. They moved to Utah in 2001 where he worked as Director of Human Resource Development at BYU until his death.
Matt was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as a bishop, stake president, and various other positions in the church. He loved nothing more than serving in the mission field, especially as he served as mission president in Tahiti from 2008-2011. Having served two missions there, he developed a great love for the islands, its people, and missionary work. He was a true missionary at heart.
Matt loved people and had a great awareness of the individual. His charismatic energy and innate ability to remember names helped make everyone feel loved. He also loved languages, speaking fluent French and Tahitian while studying many other languages. He was an avid sports enthusiast, with an unparalleled knowledge in Dodgers trivia.
Published in Deseret News on July 19, 2012
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