Mabel H. Smith, a lifelong resident of Horsham Township, passed away Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010, at Abington Hospice at Warminster. She was 90.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward, in 1992.
Born in Horsham, she was a daughter of the late John W. and Ruth (Frankenfield) Harrar.
She graduated from Ambler High School in the Class of 1938.
Mrs. Smith began a career in law enforcement in 1952, as a Horsham Township crossing guard. She became the first woman police officer in Montgomery County, and was a voted a member of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No.
14 in 1969. The Horsham Rotary named her Policewoman of the Year in 1974.
Mrs. Smith retired in 1980, after serving 20 years in the Horsham Police Department.
She was a lifelong member of the Prospectville United Methodist Church.
She also was a devoted mother, and enjoyed sewing and gardening.
Surviving are four children, Barbara Jean Card, and her husband, Lanny, of Perkasie; Doris M. Nonnenman, and her husband, Ken; Betty A. Westover; and Edward Smith Jr., and his wife, Diane, all of Horsham; 11 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; two brothers; Thomas Harrar, and his wife, Dottie, of Souderton, and Frank Harrar, and his wife, Barbara, of Hatboro; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by two sisters, Ruth Norton and Elizabeth Kratz; and three brothers, Joel, John Leslie, and William Robert Harrar.

Relatives and friends may call after 10 a.m. until her funeral service at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, at Huff & Lakjer Funeral Home, 701 Derstine Avenue, Lansdale. Interment will be in Whitemarsh Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either the American Diabetes Assn., the Juvenile Diabetes Assn., or to a charity of choice. Huff & Lakjer Funeral Home, Lansdale

December 13, 2010 2:50 AM
 

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