Josie Dell Smith

Published 5:00 am Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Services for Josie Dell Smith of Brookhaven are 3 p.m., Tuesday,April 6, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in the churchcemetery. Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Tuesday from 2 p.m. until service time.

Mrs. Smith, 85, died April 5, 2004 at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. She was born in Lincoln County on April 16, 1918, to JohnEverett Smith and Alice Foster Smith.

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She was a retired seamstress from Stahl Urban garment factory.She was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where she participatedin WMU.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband Hugh W. Smith;brothers Clifton, Bucky and Bilbo Smith; sisters Hallie Walker andGronia Smith; and grandson Jeff Britt.

Survivors are her son J. Hugh Smith, of Byram; daughter AliceBritt, of Brookhaven; and two sisters, Vadie Lee Johns, of Wesson,and Velma Smith, of Rayville, La.