Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....VAN METER, FANNIE SMITH April 27, 2014
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News Star World - April 29, 2014
FANNIE SMITH VAN METER

Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie "Charity" Smith Van Meter, age 93 a retired 
homemaker of Oak Grove, Louisiana, will be held at 2 PM on Wednesday, April 
30, 2014 at Goodwill Church of God in Goodwill, Louisiana. Reverend Jason 
Strong will officiate. Interment will follow in the Red Wing Cemetery near Oak 
Grove.

Services are under the direction of Cox Funeral Home of Oak Grove.

Visitation will be held Tuesday, April 29, 2014 from 5 to 8 PM at Cox Funeral 
Home in Oak Grove.

Mrs. Van Meter was born April 28, 1920 to Pick and Alma Smith at Charity 
Hospital in New Orleans. She passed from this life on April 27, 2014 at the 
Oak Woods Nursing Home in Mer Rouge, Louisiana.

She is survived by three daughters, Jackie Yates and husband Wayne, Gayle 
Miletello and husband Leon, Betty Jo "B. J." Turner and husband Chris, 
grandchildren Teresa Crook and husband Greg, Buck Yates and wife Marcie, Joey 
Miletello, Cindy Stone and husband Scott, Debbie Herrington and husband Blake, 
Stephanie Osborn and husband Tony, eleven great grandchildren, and one great 
great grandchild. Two sisters Woman Gardner and Lillian Buffington. Also two 
special young men she loved like her own grandchildren, Jamie Womack and Terry 
Owens.

She is preceded in death by her husband Jack Van Meter, her parents Pick and 
Alma Smith, brother Bill Smith, sisters Hazel Husband, Helen Humphries and 
Rachel Moore.

Charity lived all of her life in West Carroll Parish in the Goodwill Community 
where she and her husband Jack farmed and raised their three daughters. 
Charity cherished her family and her many friends in the small community where 
she lived. She was known as mamaw to many of the children in the area that she 
volunteered to take care of so their parents were able to work. She loved 
children and was always ready to help when the need arose.

Pallbearers are: Carroll Womack, Jamie Womack, Andy Womack, Chris Womack, 
Terry Owens and Buck Yates. Honorary Pallbearers are: Ray Rouse, Ethan Crook 
and Peyton Griffis.

A special thanks to the staff and nurses Vivian and Kesha at Oak Woods Nursing 
Home for the care and love they gave to our mother the last year of her life.

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