Smith Family Mortuaries

09/16/2026

https://www.smithfamilymortuaries.com/obituaries/sheila-cairns

View Sheila Renae Cairns's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

02/07/2025

We apologize for any inconvenience but our website will be down periodically this weekend, Friday, Feb. 7-Sunday, Feb. 9 due to maintenance work. Thank you for your understanding and patience!

07/18/2024

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July

04/25/2024

Career Day at Jefferson Elementary in Wichita!!
Darin Mabe and Michelle Mabe of Smith Family Mortuaries shared information with 2nd - 5th grade students.

01/07/2024

From Compassionate Friends:

There are days when your absence is the loudest silence I have ever heard.
- Edward Lee

Grief is a silent, lifelong companion that accompanies loss, casting a profound stillness over our lives. There are days when the absence of a loved one becomes a tangible, deafening silence.

It's not just about missing a physical presence; it's about the emptiness that remains. The laughter, the touch, the everyday sounds, everything that was once a physical relationship, becomes a vacant space and the silence that follows is not a serene pause. The unspoken conversations become a heavy silence as we try to make sense of the love and connection that linger in the unsaid and what can never be said again.

And so we learn to have silent conversations with our loved one, speaking to them from our hearts, telling them we love them, we miss them, telling them about our day to day lives, we communicate with them more intensly than ever before, without sound, in slience, but with a voice of love louder than any sound we could possible imagine.

01/05/2024

The snow is beautiful! Please drive safely!