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LeRoy E. 'Roy' Smith Jr. Music Director
LeRoy E. "Roy" Smith Jr., 83, who was the curriculum specialist of music and art for Alexandria public schools from 1980 until his retirement in 1986, died Oct. 17 at his home in Bellingham, Wash., of congestive heart failure.
Mr. Smith started working in Alexandria as the music teacher and band director at the old George Washington High School in 1952. From 1956 to 1980, he was the band director at Hammond High School in Alexandria.
A Detroit native, LeRoy Earl Smith Jr. served in the Navy during World War II and received a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a master's degree in 1952, both in music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
He was an Alexandria resident from 1952 until he moved to Bellingham in 1988.
He was a watercolorist.
His marriage to Alice Dwight Smith ended in divorce.
Survivors include two children, Dwight A. Smith of Moscow, Idaho, and Nancy S. Ryder of Bellingham; and two grandchildren
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