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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Eva L. Smith, retiring deputy clerk of Rappahannock County, has been selected as Citizen of the Year for 1978 by the staff of the Rappahannock News.
For 18 years, Mrs. Smith has been a fixture at the court house. She’s the introduction to Rappahannock folk for the hundreds of newcomers who’ve fled the cities, looking for that little piece of paradise away from it all. They’ve trooped into the clerk’s office to record a deed on their new home and have walked away smiling, convinced that life in the country will be the antithesis of city living if everyone is as pleasant and cooperative as Eva Smith.
Newlyweds start off togther with a marriage license and packet of little gifts from Eva. She’s recorded births for proud parents, helped geneologists find great-greatgreat grandmother’s tnaiden name and searched through piles of dusty records with history buffs, digging for some obscure fact from Rappahannock’s past.
And no matter what the job, she approaches it with good humor and a smile.
Eva Smith’s friendliness has made the clerk’s office a natural spot for the courthouse hangout. Lawyers, other county employees, business people with jobs in Washington, local government officials and folks with a few minutes to spare all drift in and out, catching up on tjbe latest new? and
For years, Eva's kept an inexhaustable supply of goodies—peanuts, cookies, candies and crackers—on the comer of her desk in the old red brick office. Regular visitors help themselves, sure that she means for them to do just that. Newcomers generally ask before taking a handful but it doesn’t take
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