SMITH, James H. 51, of South Pasadena, died Tuesday January 31, 2006 at home. He was born in Middletown, OH and moved to Florida in 1982 from Columbus, OH. He was a graduate of West Carrollton High in West Carrollton, OH. He earned a Master's Degree in nursing from the University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. He worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, FL. He was a member of the Pinellas Area Nurse Educators Association, the National Nursing Staff Development Organization, and Sigma Theta Tau National Honors Association for Nursing. He is survived by his mother Martha D. Trissel his step-father Robert L. Trissel both of Miamisburg OH; two sisters Shirley Ewert of Nashville, TN and Sandy Davis of West Carrollton, OH; and two brothers Jeff H. Smith of Whitley City, KY and Jon H. Smith of Dayton, OH. A Life Tribute Funeral Care Largo, FL. Published in the Dayton Daily News on 2/3/2006.