Jane Lee Llorens Smith (83) was born in Shreveport, LA on November 24, 1942, to Dr. Henry G. Llorens and Helen Hunter Llorens. Lee passed away on January 15, 2026, at The Carpenter House Hospice Facility in Shreveport, LA.
A Celebration of Life will be at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Ruston LA, on Friday, January 30, 2026, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 12:00p.m. Visitation will be at 10:30 a.m. in the Luffey Catholic Life Center, across the street at St. Thomas Catholic Church. Graveside service will be at Kilpatrick’s Memorial Gardens in Ruston. A lunch will be provided at St. Thomas Catholic Church following the graveside service.
Lee was introduced to her husband, Pat Smith, at the Barksdale Air Force Base Air Show by her neighbor who also had pilot duty that day. Pat and Lee were married on August 6, 1966, and enjoyed 51 years together before his death.
Loving school, she was educated at St. Vincent’s Academy in Shreveport, LA, the University of Dallas in Irving, TX, T.E. Schumpert Hospital in Shreveport, and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. Lee worked as a Medical Technologist at Confederate Memorial Medical Center (now Oschner/LSU) and for private doctors in Shreveport before her marriage.
During her life in Ruston, she volunteered in both her church and community. At St. Thomas Aquinas she taught (PSR) Parish School of Religion, RCIA (Rite of Initiation for adults and RCIC (Rite of Initiation of Children). She was a certified Master Catechist and a Parish Life Coordinator. She served as Eucharistic Minister at Mass and for the homebound, on the Parish Council, as Women’s Guild President and on many committees. Her most memorable being on the Gumbo Supper Committee. In her community she was a Girl Scout leader, and volunteer at CCA (Christian Community Association) and worked many years with the Ruston Peach Festival Arts and Crafts Show with her sisters in Beta Sigma Phi.
Lee was preceded in death by her husband, parents and brother Henry Hunter Llorens. She is survived by their children, Patrick Smith of Dallas, TX and Colleen Needles and her husband Chris of Shreveport, LA and Kevin Smith of San Antonio, TX. She is also survived by her brother Richard Llorens and his wife Kathleen and their children and grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers the family ask that donations be made to St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Christian Community Action, or the donor’s choice.
