Rosie K. Smith, 92, seller of baked goods

Rosie K. Smith, 92, seller of baked goods at Hutzler's

Rosie K. Smith, who sold baked goods in a downtown department store for more than two decades, died of heart failure and pneumonia May 13 at Sinai Hospital. The Howard Park resident was 92.

Rosie Katherine Nichols was born and raised in Cambridge, where she graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in 1930.

She moved to Philadelphia in the 1930s, where she took a position as a housekeeper in city public schools and later for several families. She returned to Baltimore in 1939, and worked as a housekeeper and metal sorter for Westinghouse Electric Corp.

During World War II, she was a Rosie the Riveter, working at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River, helping to build airplanes.

In 1948, she took a position with Hutzler Bake Shop at its old Howard Street store, and retired in 1975 as a senior saleswoman.

Mrs. Smith enjoyed cooking and entertaining, and was known for her pigs' feet and potato salad, family members said.

She was an accomplished pinochle player and was a member of the Les' Comrades Pinochle Club and FALS-Free at Last Society, two social clubs, and the Forest Park Senior Center.

Mrs. Smith had been a member for 66 years of Fulton Baptist Church, 1630 W. North Ave., where services will be held at 10:30 a.m. today.

Surviving are a daughter, Marian Carter of Howard Park; a stepson, Edward Young of Edmondson Village; a sister, Beulah Camper of Philadelphia; a grandson; and two great-grandsons. Her marriage to Hugh E. Smith ended in divorce.

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