Louise Bernice Russell

.Louise Bernice Russell, 62, of Westfield passed away Thursday, December 10, 2009 at Overlook Hospital. Born in Passaic, NJ, she grew up in Rahway. After graduating from Rutgers Newark with a BA in Russian, Louise worked at the Union County Board of Social Services for seven years, first as a caseworker and then as a supervisor. After being a full-time mom for many years, Louise worked in the Circulation Department at the Westfield Memorial Library. She was an avid walker, gardener, and animal lover who will be dearly missed. Surviving is her beloved husband of 33 years, Marvin Smith; her elder daughter Susan Russell-Smith and her husband John Soster, of Brooklyn; her younger daughter Kathleen Russell-Smith and her fiancé Jon Iverson, of Brooklyn; her brother, Don Russell and his companion Ann Bushey, of Metuchen; and her mother Susan Russell, of Rahway. Louise was a member of the Unitarian Church in Summit, NJ (4 Waldron Avenue, at the corner of Springfield and Waldron Avenues), where a memorial service will be held on Friday, December 18th at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, donations in her name may be made to the Cornell Feline Health Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Box 13, Ithaca, NY 14853 or the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, P.O. Box 27106, New York, NY 10087. Arrangements by the Gray Funeral Home, Westfield