Obituaries:  Mrs. Rhoda S. Smith, Sabine Parish       S-530
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 18, 1958
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Rhoda S. Smith

  Funeral services for Mrs. Rhoda S. Smith, age 105. was conducted
at Warren Funeral Home Chapel at 10 a.m., Friday, April 11, with
Rev. John Koelemay officiating. Interment was in Pisgah Cemetery
near Belmont, with Warren Funeral Home in charge.

  Survivors are daughter, Mrs. Janis Rains of Bossier City; two
grandsons, Joe Ashley of Shreveport, George H. Thomas of
Lafayette; two granddaughters, Mrs. Louise Hall of Sacramento,
Calif., Mrs. Viola Mathis of Bossier City; seven great
grandchildren; and 21 great-great grandchildren.

  Mrs. Smith's life began in Selma, Ala., before the outbreak of
the Civil War. She was born Oct. 26, 1852. She spent most of her
life in Sabine Parish, at Pleasant Hill and Belmont, before her
marriage and residence in Many. For the past several years, she
was a resident of a nursing home, where she celebrated her 101st
birthday in 1953, attended by a host of friends and relatives.

  Attendants at the nursing home where Mrs. Smith died, recall the
pleasure with which she received the huge surprise 101st birthday
cake five years ago. It was inscribed "Happy Birthday
Grandmother." A gift from her only living daughter,
grandchildren, and great grandchildren.