Kyoko Kodama Smith

October 13, 1940 - April 16, 2022

Kyoko Kodama Smith passed away peacefully on 16 April, 2022 in Port Orchard, WA where she has been a resident for 15 years. Kyoko was born October 13, 1940 in Hiroshima, Japan and is the only child of Maniabu and Toshiko Horiuchi Kidama also of Hiroshima, Japan. Kyoko was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints September 23, 1962. She married Ed Smith in Laie Hawaii July 18, 1969. Ed and Kyoko lived in Hawaii for a few years while they attended college where she took additional courses to get a teaching degree. Kyoko settled in Glendale, California in 1977 where she lived until 2007 at which time she moved to Port Orchard Washington where she was an active member of the Southworth Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Kyoko was very talented and smart. She made beautiful jewelry, did woodworking and loved making all kinds of crafts, all of which she used to bless the lives of those around her. She had a gift for identifying where she could fill in the gaps in peoples lives. She was an avid cook and was famous for her elaborate dinners where she would bring together friends and family. “God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind.” (Jeffrey R Holland) Kyoko was an angle and a blessing in all of our lives as a gift from our Heavenly Father.