JORDANVILLE - Mildred Leta Smith Fahey age 105 of Pumpkin Hook Roadpassed away peacefully on Sunday morning March 23, 2008 after a brief illness in her home. Born on August 28, 1902 in the town of Springfieldnear Van Hornesville she was the daughter of the late Daniel and Grace Acres Smith. Mildred was a lifelong area resident who was the fifth generation to live on the Smith Family farm and could trace her family on both sides back to the Revolutionary War. She attended grade school in a one room school house and graduated from Springfield Center High School. She furthered her education obtaining her teachers training at Oneonta Normal. Mildred taught grade school in a one room school house when she was eighteen years old. On July 10, 1929 she was united in marriage with Francis Joseph Fahey in Oneonta. A loving and devoted union of forty-four years, Mr. Fahey preceded her in death in 1973. After she married her husband they took over running the Smith Farm. She became a farm wife and they raised five children and a granddaughter. Mildred always took life as it came along and always self needed. She was Grandma to her extended family and her job was to continue to care for her family and to keep them together. She had a strong belief in God and was the oldest member of the VanHornesville United Methodist Church. To all those who knew her she was a determined person and overcame many obstacles in her in life. Growing up in the early 1900s, obtaining an education, teaching school for ten years, raising a large family, working a farm, surviving cancer, and becoming the head of a very large family. In her early days she used a horse and buggy and used her first teachers pay to obtain a Model T Ford car. Car rides always remained one of her favorite things. Mrs. Fahey enjoyed shopping, bright sunny days, winters with her husband and granddaughter in Florida, family celebrations and get-togethers, Days of Our Lives soap opera show, her huge 100th birthday celebration party and having her 105th birthday announced on the Today Show. She was the matriarch of the family. She was deeply loved and devoted to her husband, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great great-grandchildren. Surviving are two daughters, Marjorie Geukes, Jean Huckabone, three sons and their wives, Robert and Joan Fahey, Bernard and Mary Jane Fahey, Donald and Vanetta Fahey, her sister-in-law, Jeanette Smith, many grandchildren including a special granddaughter Sheila with her husband Jim Oldick, great grandchildren, great great-grandchildren and special friends.. Besides her parents and husband Francis she was predeceased by three brothers, Harland, Lesley and Harold Smith, two son-in-laws, John Geukes and Doug Huckabone, grandsons Jason Fahey and Mark Bramhall and a great-granddaughter Amanda Fahey. Funeral service will be on Wednesday at 7:00 pm in J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home; 40 West James Street, RichfieldSprings. The Reverend Cindy Makarchuk, Pastor of the VanHornesville United Methodist Churchwill officiate. Interment will be in Springfield Center Cemetery later this spring at a time to be announced. The family will be present in the funeral home to receive relatives and friends on Wednesday from 4:00 until 7:00 pm. Expressions of sympathy may be made with memorial donations to the Catskill Area Hospice. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. The family wishes to thank Catskill Area Hospice for their care and compassion and the Meals on Wheels delivery people who Mildred enjoyed visiting with everyday.