POP/ROCK - May 11, 1987

Kate Smith left $25,000 to St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid, N.Y., when she died last June at age 79, and now the church is going to relax its policy against mausoleums. The church committee voted to allow the erection of a $40,000 rose-colored mausoleum that will include a stained-glass window. “We made a concession because of her,” said the Rev. Robert Lamitie. The executor of Smith’s will had said there might be court action if Smith’s burial wishes were not carried out. Smith’s body now is in a receiving vault at the church. Smith, who had a home in Lake Placid and spent many summers at the resort village in the Adirondacks, also left $5,000 to Lake Placid Memorial Hospital.