Bessie C. Smith

Published 5:00 am Thursday, March 26, 2009

Services for Bessie C. Smith, of Brookhaven, are 1 p.m. Friday,March 27, at Riverwood Family Funeral Service Chapel with burial inMacedonia Baptist Church Cemetery in Brookhaven.

Visitation is Thursday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Smith, 94, died March 24, 2009, at her residence. She wasborn on Nov. 16, 1914, to Hiram Augusta Case and Betty JaneSmith.

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She was retired assembler from the Potter Co. She was an activemember of Macedonia Baptist Church and the Women’s MissionaryUnion.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, JeffieOscar Smith; a son, Reggie K. Smith; her daughters, Will Ann Fuglerand Gay Smith; her son-in-law, Robert Fugler; her siblings, RuthCase, Gladys Allgood, Jessie Arrington, Isom Carl Case, Clara V.Ballard, James Case, Ada Pearl Evans and Gussie Smith.

Survivors are a son-in-law, Donald Smith; a daughter-in-law,Charlotte Smith; her six grandchildren, Jeff Smith and wife, Rose,Eric Smith and wife, Mary-Beth, Les Smith, Bobby Fugler, BrianFugler, Deanna Smith and husband, Mitchell; her sevengreat-grandchildren, Brooks Smith and wife, Kyndal, Jeffie-BlakeSmith, Jeremy DeDeaux and wife, Bridget, Lindy Smith, Lauren Smith,Allison Smith and Andrew Smith; and her fivegreat-great-grandchildren, Brooklyn Smith, Kayleigh Smith, AubreyBoman, Stoney DeDeaux and Lansley Grace DeDeaux.

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