ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: SMITH, MAX 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: The St. Tammany News, St. Tammany, La.

Posted: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 

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Max Smith, 81, died Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012.

The resident of Diamondhead, Miss., who was born in Natchez, Miss., had lived 
in the New Orleans and Slidell areas since the 1990s.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Richard and Madge Smith, and older 
sisters, Helen and Sarah Phillips and Suzie Dunevant.

Raised primarily in the small town of Newbern, Tenn., during the Great 
Depression and WWII, he graduated from the Columbia military school in 1950 and 
served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He attended the now-named 
University of Memphis, where he was a Lambda Chi Alpha member. He worked in 
heavy industry, becoming an industrial salesman who ran several small 
businesses, including Bingo Mate of Louisiana, before retiring in 1999 to 
devote time to family, travel, fishing and Louisiana State University football 
games. He loved people, socializing and good food and had an abundance of 
patient and humor.

He is survived by his sons and daughter-in-laws, Mike Smith and Natalie Coker 
of Slidell, and Stacy Smith and Kelly Ward of The Woodlands, Texas; five 
grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.

The memorial service will be Aug. 11 at 3 p.m. at Aldersgate United Methodist 
Church, 360 Robert Blvd., Slidell. Internment will be private.

Memorial donations requested in lieu of flowers to the United Methodist 
Committee of Emergency Relief, P.O. Box 9068, New York, NY 10087, or United 
Service Organizations at www.USO.org.

Bagnell & Son Funeral Home of Covington is handling the arrangements.

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