Rose Smallwood

Boardman TWP A Memorial service will be held at the chapel at Calvary

Cemetery on July 31

st at 10 AM for Rose Smallwood, 84, of Boardman who

passed away on Friday morning on July 17

th 2026 , at Park Center Health Care

Facility of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.

Rose was born September 25, 1941, in Youngstown, the daughter of the late

Anthony and Helen ( Brosnack ) Pomaro. She was a graduate of South High

School , class of 1959. Rose met the love of her life Monte Smallwood while

both working at Kessler Products in Youngstown, Ohio. Monte and Rose wed

on June 27, 1984. Rose went on to work as an office clerk at Boardman

Glenwood Middle School where all the students lovingly addressed her as "

Grandma". After retiring in 2008, Rose could be found in any of the area

churches playing Bingo and making friends. She enjoyed crafts, a good cookie

and was a big Elvis fan.

Rose was known above all as a gentle, sweet and a generous.

woman who readily adopted anyone she met as family. She radiated love and

joy and if you knew Rose you experienced her " Love Bubble" , her love for

people could be felt in the room when she stepped into it. Even after her

departure from this earth her presence lingers still with all of those her life has

touched. Every kindness Rose extended left a little light behind. Always with

a kind word, a smile , a gift of cookies or candy , none of it wasted. The world

is a softer place because she was in it.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Shirley DeGregory and her brother,

Donald " Peppy" Pomaro.

Besides her loving husband Monte, Rose leaves her nieces, nephews and loving

staff and friends at Park Center a place she considered " Home ".

- Values are like fingerprints. Nobodys are the same, but you leave them all

over everything you do. - Elvis

In lieu of floweres the family requests donations to be made in Roses name to

Penny Pinchers 6826 Market St Boardman, OH 44512, where all donations

benefit those battling cancer.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home, Austintown Chapel.

Family and friends may view obituaries and send condolences, visit www.higgins-reardon.com