Mrs. Fannie Mulford Van Dusen Smith died Saturday afternoon at her home on Barclay Street, Canajoharie, after suffering a heart attack the previous afternoon. Mrs. Smith was born in Van Dusenville, July 25, 1874, the daughter of Charles Carlin and Gertrude Hammond Van Dusen. After the early death of her parents in 1893 she made her home with her uncle, Edward S. Van Dusen, in Fort Plain where she attended Clinton Liberal institute. Upon graduation she went to New York City where she attended art school and was married to a promising young artist, Allen Van Dusen. She was left a widow after about a year and thereafter made her home in New York City, Fort Plain and Gowanda until she came to Canajoharie in 1925 to care for her aunt, Mrs. Joel Loucks. In 1929, she was married to William N. Smith, who died in 1937. She was an active member of the Canajoharie Reformed Church. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Loraine Bills, Herkimer; a niece, Mrs. Lona Bills Rutherford, Baltimore, Md; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Marian Smith Putman, Schenectady, and one step-son, Roger Peck Smith, Canajoharie. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:30 P. M. at the Lenz funeral home, Otsego Street, Canajoharie, with the Rev. Herbert F. Guth, former pastor of the Canajoharie Reformed Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Fort Plain Cemetery. Published in: Evening Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y., Monday, May 14, 1951.^3,2