Former Bluffton resident Larry Franklin Smucker died Feb. 24, 2020. He was born on May 3, 1941, in Akron, Ohio, to Carl and Irene (Yoder) Smucker and died  of Alzheimers in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  

Larry attended public schools in Bluffton, and was a Boy Scout, attaining the highest award of Eagle Scout. While in high school he wrote as a news correspondent for the Lima Citizen and the Findlay Republican-Courier.

He was a member of the National Honor Society. Both in 1956-57 and 1957-58 he played on the football team that won the North West Conference title. He was also on the tennis team. He graduated from Bluffton High School.

Larry attended Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, from 1959 to 1963. Then went to Harvard University in Boston on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and graduated in 1964 with a M. A. in European history.  

He was employed for 18 years with the Agency for International Development, a U. S. agency administering non-military foreign aid.  He worked at the main AID office in Washington D. C. and had overseas assignments in Ankara, Turkey, and Lima, Peru. He then worked at the World Bank from 1983 to 2003 in various positions.

His first wife was Joan Lubin, who died in 1985. He is survived by his wife, Fauzia S. Rashid of Chevy Chase, sister Mary (Smucker) Conrad of Ontario, brother David Rempel Smucker of Manitoba, son Daniel Smucker (m. Ronica Sanders) and granddaughter Sophia of California, daughter Julia (Smucker) Thompson (m. Courtney Thompson) and grandson Lucas of  Maryland, and son Jonathan [Smucker] Steel Virginia.

Also surviving are his wife’s family, step-daughter, Rishm Amjad (m. Taimur Amjad), plus step-grand-daughter Alicia, and step-grandson Assam—all of Pakistan. 

A funeral service is at 11 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 29, at Hyattsville Mennonite Church, 4217 East-West Highway, Hyattsville, MD 20782. Memorial gifts are designated to Jubilee Association of Maryland, 106408 Montgomery Dr., Kensington, MD 20895.