 Smaller was an educator, community mom, and a Northside activist, friends and family say. She died in February 2022, and the effort to rename the park began the following month. Her husband, Floyd Smaller Jr., spoke to the gathered community members to pay tribute to his late wife and women in general. It's great to have a park named after a woman, but there should be more streets and places and institutions named after women. Women have did a whole lot to hold this society together.