Idell Smith

Published 6:00 am Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Services for Idell Smith, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m. Thursday,Feb. 19, at Avery Chapel AME Church in Brookhaven with burial inCarver Heights Cemetery in Brookhaven.

Visitation is Wednesday from 1 until 6 p.m. at WilliamsMortuary.

Mrs. Smith, 91, died Feb. 12, 2009, at Haven Hall Health CareCenter. She was born in Brookhaven on Sept. 9, 1917, to WillieSmith and Mamie Proctor Smith.

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She was graduate of Alexander High School and Alcorn StateUniversity. Mrs. Smith was a retired teacher. She was a member ofAvery Chapel AME Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents.

Survivors are a son, Roosevelt Smith and wife, Jean, of Dover,Del.; a sister, Doris Smith, of Detroit, Mich.; her threegrandchildren; her five great-grandchildren; her five nieces andnephews; and a host of other relatives and friends.