Charles "Buck" Smith

From The Independent, February 26, 1986

The above article has at least one error: Charles "Buck" Smith's paternal grandparents were Charles Henry Smith and Mary Ann Bannon. Thomas Jefferson Davis Smith was the brother of Charles Henry Smith. 

Below: from The Independent, September 13, 1989

Hampden - Marilyn Claire (Smith) Playter, 83, died on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at a Bangor nursing facility, with her loving daughter Laura by her side. She was born Jan. 15, 1927, in Newark, NJ, the daughter of Charles A. “Buck” Smith and Frances (Byrnes) Smith Deevy. She was a lifelong resident of Belford, NJ before moving to Hampden, Maine in July 2004.

Marilyn met her husband, Gordon William Playter, Jr. while they both attended and graduated from Fairleigh Dickenson Junior College. She was a better dress buyer for Hayne & Company in NJ and later in life she took over as owner of her father’s business, Buck Smith’s “House of Brides” a landmark banquet facility in Middletown (Keansburg), NJ. Marilyn loved to travel and travel she did all over the world from the South Pole to Russia with many stops in between. Her last big trip was to Kenya on a safari. It was better to ask her where she hadn't been rather than where she had been.

She is survived by her daughter Laura Playter Poll and husband Everett “Bud” Poll of Hampden, son-in-law Drew Roberts of Belford, NJ, daughter-in-law Susan Miller Playter of Middletown, NJ, son-in-law and daughter-in-law Gary and Cheryl Apel of Island Hgts, NJ and Max Playter her beloved pug. Grandchildren in Maine, David Poll and wife Toni of Hudson, Melissa Poll Gould and husband Jaimie of Levant, Kristen Poll of Jacksonville, FL, grandchildren in NJ, Karisa, Shannon, Cole, and Grant Playter of Middletown, Brendan Apel and wife Anne Marie of Island Heights, Justin Apel and wife Danielle of Bayville, Kevin Apel of Island Heights, Desa Martin Dalia and husband Fred of Brick. She leaves behind her great-grandchildren, Diane Apel, Hunter Poll, Jacob Gould, Maiella Apel and Desa’s four children. She also leaves behind her special cousin Marcy Labarge of Tempe, AZ with whom she spent so many happy times with in Florida and Arizona, brother-in-law George Playter of Sedona, AZ and sister Eleanor Smith Wilcox and husband Russell Wilcox of NJ.

She was predeceased by her husband Gordon W. Playter, Jr. on May 23, 2007, her daughters Diane Playter Apel on April 25, 1975 and Sharon Playter-Roberts on Sept. 22, 2009, and her son James G. Playter on Oct. 30, 2009.