Carroll G. Smith
Published 5:00 am Friday, September 26, 2008
Graveside services for Carroll G. Smith, of Brookhaven, are 1p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, at Damascus Cemetery in FranklinCounty.
Visitation is Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon at HarrigillFuneral Home in Brookhaven.
Mr. Smith, 90, died Sept. 24, 2008, at New Dawn RetirementCenter in Ruth. He was born in Franklin County on March 30, 1918,to Johnny Paxton Smith and Maggie Hall Smith.
He retired from Nalco Chemical Company. He was a U.S. Armyveteran, who served from 1936 to 1938 in the Panama Canal Zone. Andin 1941, he was inducted and assigned to the 95th infantry divisionand served in the European Theatre. He was honorably discharged in1945. He was a member of Damascus Baptist Church.
Preceding him in death were his wife, Billie House Smith; hiswife, Eloine Buckley Smith; his stepfather, T.W. “Tunie” Vaughn;his stepbrothers, IngrĂ´m Vaughn and Leighton Vaughn; and his twostepsisters, Jessie Vaughn Godwin and Josie Vaughn Smith.
Survivors are his son, Johnny C. Smith, of Charlotte, N.C.; asister, Virginia Vaughn Burgess, of Brookhaven; and asister-in-law, Pauline Vaughn, of Brookhaven.