Frances E. ‘Fran’ Smith, medical assistant and philanthropist, dies

Frances E. ‘Fran’ Smith, medical assistant and philanthropist, dies

Frances E. “Fran” Smith, a medical assistant and philanthropist recalled as a much-loved family matriarch, died of pancreatic cancer March 31 at her Hunt Valley home. She was 73. Mrs. Smith had been a Greater Baltimore Medical Center medical assistant and worked in its Department of Gynecology with doctors James Dorsey, Francis Bing Grumbine and Theodore Baramki. “She was loved by patients and doctors alike,” said a family obituary. “She prided …