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Smith -- Hastings A. Smith, 59, died Thursday, April 17, 2003 at Los Alamos Medical Center after a brief cardiac illness. He was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, to Hastings A. Smith, Sr., and Elizabeth Rogers Smith on April 20, 1943. After spending his school years in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Purdue University to pursue his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics. While attending Purdue he met and married his wife Edith Elaine Marker. Following a postdoctorate at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's Omega Site, he joined the Physics Faculty at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. In 1978 he returned to Los Alamos to work in Nuclear Safeguards and Nonproliferation programs. Most recently, he was a frequent traveler to Russia and was the Project Leader for Russian Nuclear Programs at LANL. Hastings has been active in amateur vocal music all of his life, in light opera as well as other choral groups, including the Purdue University Varsity Glee Club during his undergraduate and graduate days. He joined the Sangre de Cristo Chorale after returning to New Mexico. One of his greatest joys was singing in the Chorale, and he was their business manager since 1983. Hastings is survived by his wife of 37 years, Elaine Marker; his eldest son, Christopher Hastings and wife, Natalie Kay of Los Alamos; his daughter, Angela Lynn Morris and husband, Mark Wayne Morris and their children, Jackson Timothy and Madeline Elizabeth of Albuquerque; and youngest son, Timothy Robert of Albuquerque. He is also survived by his mother, Elizabeth Rogers Smith of Longboat Key Florida; and his brother, Robert Tarleton Smith and wife, Carrie Walters Smith of Houston; and their two sons, Tarleton Smith and Steven Smith and their wives, living in Dallas, Texas. A Memorial Service will be held at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday April 22, 2003 at First United Methodist Church of Los Alamos. A reception will follow the service in Fellowship Hall. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Sangre de Cristo Chorale, 100 Venado, Los Alamos, NM 87544. McGee Memorial Chapel Mortuary 1320 Luisa Street 983-9151
        Published on: Sun April 20, 2003