Jacquelyn Smith

Jacquelyn L. (Pimentel) Smith, 65, of Center Conway went peacefully to heaven with friends and family by her side on December 22, 2011 after a courageous 7-month battle with cancer. Jackie was born April 17, 1946 in Somerville, Massachusetts to Victor and Florence (Barter) Pimentel. She attended Cohasset schools where she was a standout athlete. She earned varsity letters in softball, basketball and field hockey as an eighth grade student. She earned a teaching degree from Eastern Nazarene College and started her passion for helping adolescents as a teacher in the Boston schools until the birth of her daughters.

Jackie continued her love of teaching when she founded and became the director of the Brown Church Pre-School in Conway. While teaching, she also shared her love of athletics as a Field Hockey, Softball and Girls Basketball coach at Kennett High School and Junior High.

For the past 13 years she has worked as Fryeburg Academy as a director of the Transition Program and a College Counselor. While she was working at the Academy she earned her Masters Degree in counseling and continued to expand her education. Jackie was very involved and loved working at the Academy and she thought of everyone there as her second family.

Jackie enjoyed many activities such as hiking, cross country skiing, kayaking, volunteering at the humane society, walking in road races, reading, gardening, and spending as much time with her family as possible. She adored her two grandchildren as much as they adored her. Vacationing with her children and grandchildren in Bar Harbor brought her great joy.

She is survived by two daughters Victoria Laracy and her husband Mike of Conway and Jennifer Smith and her fiancé Charles O'Donnell of Portsmouth; two grandchildren Collin and Katie Laracy of Conway and her brother, Victor Pimentel and his fiancé Louann Blackburn of Boxford, MA.

A service to celebrate the life of Jacquelyn Smith will be held at the Christ Episc