Services for Velma Smith, of Columbia, are 11 a.m. Wednesday,May 23, at North Columbia Church of God in Columbia with burial inFoxworth Cemetery. Riverwood Family Funeral Service is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Tuesday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the church.

Mrs. Smith, 78, died May 21, 2007, at her residence. She wasborn on Feb. 4, 1928, to Lewis Stogner and Ivy Peak Stogner.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of North Columbia Churchof God.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, CarleySmith; her sister, Annie May Bryant; and her brother, HollisStogner.

Survivors are her son, Elvis Smith and wife Loretta, ofFoxworth; her daughters, Rita Smith, of Columbia, Anita KayStringer and husband Wayne, of Columbia, Kathy Ratcliff and husbandJoe, of Brookhaven, Vickie Smith, of Columbia; her brothers, ShelbyStogner, Jewel Stogner and Charles Stogner, all of Columbia; andher seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.