Benhill County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Mary Long March 19, 2013 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Esther Lord Smith http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006600 June 22, 2013, 12:15 am Obituary, March 2013 Mary L. Smith, 88, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at Heritage Personal Care Home in Ocilla. Funeral services will be held 2pm, Thursday, March 21, 2013, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald with Elder Jamey Tucker and the Rev. Dewain Joiner officiating. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Mrs. Smith was born June 27, 1924, in Screven, Georgia, to the late Walter and Maude Satilla Moody Long. She lived in the community for over 65 years. For 47 years she was a bookkeeper and sales clerk for Friedlander's Department Store in Fitzgerald, retiring only when the store closed. Mrs. Smith was famous for baking cakes and doing alterations. She was a longtime member of Fitzgerald Church of God. She is survived by a sister-in-law; Lois Parsons of Fitzgerald as well as several nieces and nephews including several nieces and nephews of her husband. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; J.B. Smith to whom she was married for 62 years; five sisters and six brothers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/benhill/obits/s/smith14114ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb