Services for Ruby K. Smith, of Hammond, La., are 1 p.m. Tuesday,July 15, at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Natchez Drive with burial inHillcrest Church of Christ Cemetery.

Mrs. Smith, 79, died July 13, 2008, at Belle Maison Nursing Homein Hammond. She was born in Harriman, Tenn. on June 2, 1929, toJoseph Forrester and Mary Teague Forrester.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Church of Christ.

Preceding her in death were her parents and her husband, PercyJ. Smith.

Survivors are her sons, Rodney Smith, of Albany, La., and JohnTerral Smith, of Bay St. Louis; a daughter, Crystal Bourgeois, ofAlbany; a sister, June Howard, of Harriman; her six grandchildren;and her 12 great-grandchildren.