Hello, your post is an old one so I don't know if you're still looking for info, but my Mom, Marjorie, was Dorothy's older sister. Smith was Vern, Marge, and Dot's father, and according to my mom an abusive husband and father--she would never discuss him any further. Esther and he were divorced and she remarried someone named Gibbs who is the father of their little brother Richard. Gibbs died before I was born, but by all accounts he was a good husband and father and he adopted my mother at her request. Hope this helps.