Name: Swan-Law Funeral Directors
Address: Colorado Springs, CO

She was my art teacher in middle school. I loved her class!

She also knew my mom as my mom Lou Miller had worked at that middle school until 1973.

Tomma Lou was my first cousin.  Her mom was my dad’s sister.  I was heartbroken when I found out on Facebook that she had passed away.  I did not get to see her very often but did get to spend time with her on several Mansell reunions.  She was also a part of what we called the Mansell Robin that has been going around for a long time.  It was an envelope of letters that each wrote a letter, mailed it out and when it came back around to you, read everyone’s letter, take out your old one, write another and send it on it’s way.  Tomma Lou always wrote the most interesting letter of all of them.  I will truly miss her and Bill.

My friend we met at Mah Jongg, and shared a lot of laughs. I will miss your smile and your perky, upbeat personality.  You will always hold a place in my heart.

I meet you at the scrapbook store in Canon City Colorado in 2003.  It was a sad time in my life.  You helped me & became a great friend to me & my family. 
 am sad that you left us us but it is a comfort to know you & Bill are together again. I love you both

For the short time I knew Tomma she was such a sweet and kind soul. My mom Sabrina help Bill and Tomma a lot last year and in that short time they became like family to us. She will be mist, but she is now in a better place and back with her loving husband. 

I sure liked Tomma Lou!  I hadn't seen her in many years since I moved from Colorado Springs but her good friend Linda Elliot would give me Tomma updates.  I didn't know Tomma really well but I sure loved running into her around town.  She was always lovely, happy, and funny, and we would usually end up gut laughing about something ridiculous.
She was one of the good ones and will be missed by many.

Oh how I'm going to miss you my long time friend. Words can't express how much I love you and the special light you have brought into my life.  Rest in peace with no more pain and grief Girlfriend. I'll see you again someday.

Tomma Lou and I met in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan when she arrived as an exchange teacher from Colorado Springs, Co.    We hit it off as friends immediately.  As two single women at the time we hung out together nearly every day of the year she was in my city.  We had great fun together going to bars, movies, supper out, bbqing at home, etc.
Tomma Lou made friends easily  and as a staff member Tomma Lou was included in many events and social gatherings .  A small group of four or five of us gathered regularily and had small deck and house gatherings mostly at Pat and Dave Hamlyn's. They were great fun.     The year Tomma was in Canada was also the year the movie 10 came out.   Bo Derek with her braided hair was popular and so Tomma got her hair braided like Bo Derek.  She was immediately nicknamed Bo Lou for the rest of her stay.   The movie Norma Rae also came out that year.  She nicknamed me Norma Rae for my activities in the labour movement.  She called me Norma for the rest of the time I knew her.
I had the to opportunity to go home with her to Colorado Springs on Christmas break that year.  She was living at home with her parents then and I met her lovely parents then.  She toured me all over Colorado Springs during my stay and even took me out to a ranch that belonged to a friend and we did target shooting one afternoon.   
Country and western music was crazy popular then and we went to a bar where country and western dancing and a mechanical bull was there.  I had my first and only shot of Wild Turkey bourbon.  
Several years later when both of us had married and I had a daughter, my husband and I went to Colorado Springs and met Bill Smith.  We were only there three days but we had a wonderful time and Bill and Tomma were great hosts.
We also visited them at Coal Creek, shortly after they had built their new home there.  
I have many more memories of this lovley person, I loved Tomma, I am saddened that she has passed but happy that she is reunited with Bill.


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Tomma Lou Smith

November 10, 1943 – January 4, 2021

Swan-Law Funeral Directors

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