IN MEMORIAM
Dorothy 'Dot' Smith, 79;
Ran Spurbeck's For 20 Years
COOPERSTOWN – Dorothy Marie Vidosić Smith, 79, an accomplished painter and the matriarch of Spurbeck's Grocery for 20 years, passed from this life on Saturday, Sept. 29.
She was born in Atlanta, Ga. on May 5, 1939, the daughter of Joseph Paul Vidosić and Martha Marie Van den Bulck. She attended Georgia Tech and graduated in 1961. On June 16, 1961, she married Roger Smith, and in 1963, they moved to Toddsville.
In 1996, she and Roger took over Spurbeck’s Grocery, which Roger’s grandfather had opened in 1941, from Roger’s mother, Gert. They ran the store until they sold it in October 2017.