Chris Smith’s wife pays tribute to beloved husband and father
Lindsay Smith, Chris Smith’s wife, has paid tribute to her l a t e hus b a nd s ay i ng t ha t the family takes comfort in knowing that he was ‘ doing something he loved’ when he passed.
Speaking exclusively to the Scotsman, Lindsay reiterated her thanks to everybody that was involved in looking for her husband Chris last week after he went missing in the Perthshire hills saying that everyone ‘ bent over backwards to help them’.
Chris, who was 43 when he died, went out running on Tuesday, October 27 i n the Glenlyon area in Perthshire and was expected back around 5pm that day. Failing to return, a search and rescue operation got underway to try to trace him but unfortunately his body was discovered on the morning of Thursday, October 29.
Lindsay said: “We have been
totally overwhelmed by the response that we’ve had to him going missing and then the news of his passing and I think as a family it has brought us a lot of comfort that he clearly touched the lives of so many people.
"It was lovely to hear about how he helped other people so much.”
Lindsay went on to describe the type of family man her husband was and how proud he was of their two boys Alastair and Cameron, who are aged just seven and nine.
She said: “In our family, Chris was always truly like a beacon of energy. We were always on an adventure and we were just having the most brilliant time in Scotland before this happened.
"We spent the night before in a wildlife hide spotting pine martens which is something that he had really wanted to do with the boys, we were so proud of what the children were doing. And we had been on a really l ovely walk t he morning before he went on that last run.
“We were having such a great time on holiday and that’s a real comfort to us as a family.”
Lindsay added: "He was so happy, just before he went for his run he was talking about going up in the hills and how much it meant to him. How he just couldn’t wait to get back up there and run. So we really take comfort in the fact that he was doing what he loved.”
"We’ll hold onto the fact that he was doing what he loved and was so happy.”