Montese P. Smith

Published 10:10 am Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Funeral services for Montese P. Smith are Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) with burial in New Hope Church of Christ Cemetery. Bro. Joel Smith will officiate.

Visitation is Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, from 11 a.m. until time of services at Brookhaven Funeral Home.

Mrs. Smith, 84, died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, at Silver Cross Nursing Home. She was born May 15, 1932, in Lincoln County to Virgil Lamar Smith and Lura Bell Smith Smith.

She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and wife. She was of the Church of Christ faith.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Billy Joe Smith; and sister, Eleanor Smith.

Survivors are her daughters, Cathy Smith, Karen Porter and husband, Gary, and Melissa Rushing and husband, Edward, all of Brookhaven; grandchildren, Shannon Smith, Leigh Smith, Joseph Porter, Dustin Porter, Jessica Dykes, Ashley Rushing, Jamie Rushing and Anna Grace Rushing; 14 great-grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; brother Aubrey Lamar Smith and wife, Else, of Texas; sister Charlotte Smith, of Texas; and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends.

The family would like to give a special thanks to the staff and nurses at Silver Cross Nursing Home and Hospice Compassus.

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