Freeport-Margaret Haskell Smith of Windsor Post Road, Freeport, died March 21, 2011 at home in Freeport.

Mrs. Smith was born on August 14, 1920, in Newton Center, Massachusetts, daughter of William A. Haskell and Margaret Lincoln Barry.

She spent her years in Newton Center attending local schools. In 1935 she entered The Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, from which she graduated in 1938. She then attended Smith College, graduating in 1942.

Her summers were spent at the family cottage in Blue Hill, Maine, and it was in Blue Hill at the age of 16 that she met her future husband Halsey Smith of South Orange, NJ. They were married in Trinity Episcopal Church, Newton Center on December 19, 1942.

In 1945, after Mr. Smith’s return from duty in the Marine Corps., they settled in Orange, NJ, where they lived until 1951. In September of that year, Mr. Smith became associated with the Casco Bank and Trust Company and the family moved to the Portland area, settling on the Blackstrap Road in Falmouth. In 1969 they moved from Falmouth to Freeport.

Mrs. Smith was predeceased by her parents, her husband, her brother William A. Haskell of Topsham, and a son-in-law, Gerald A. Shafts. She is survived by her four children: Margaret Coburn Smith and her partner Sandra Bishop of Landrum, SC; Karen W. Shafts of West Roxbury, MA; Halsey Smith, Jr. and his wife Cynthia of Wellington, FL; and Ellen Ebert and her husband Daric of Freeport. She is also survived by six grandchildren – Heather Winson of South Portland and her husband Rob; Melissa Sykes of Lynnfield, MA and her husband David; Emily Ebert of Burnham-on-Crouch, UK and her husband Harry; Nicholas Ebert of Portland, ME; Zachary Smith and Dean Smith of Wellington, FL – and eight great-grandchildren.

A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, April 2, at 2:30 p.m. at the South Freeport Church on South Freeport Road. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Freeport Community Services, 53 Depot Road, Freeport, ME 04032 or to Coastal Humane Society of Brunswick, 30 Range Road, Brunswick, ME 04011.

Arrangements are under the care of Kincer Funeral Home 130 Pleasant St. Richmond, Me 04357.