The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Barbara Ruth Smith Brasby graduated from this Earth and entered her heavenly home on March 6, 2024. She passed away peacefully in Fort Morgan at Valley View Villa Care Center with family. She was a resident of Haxtun for 22 years.

Barb was born Sept. 2,1932 on Nantucket Island, Mass., to Irene May Beamish and Albert Walter Judd Smith. Within weeks, Albert left the family. When Barb was seven, Irene remarried Willard Edson Nickerson, who fully became Barb's loving dad.

Barb met her sweetheart Henry "Hank" when she was 17, and still in school, at a movie intermission where they each had come wit...