AVERY COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Louise Miller Smith, 5 Dec 2003 ----¤¤¤¤---- Louise Miller Smith, 87, of 5004 Bluff City Highway, went to be with the Lord on Friday, December 5, 2003 from the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Smith was born January 3, 1916 to the late Grover Miller and Ethel Blaylock and was a native of Newland, North Carolina. She was a lifelong resident of Sullivan County. Mrs. Smith was a housewife and a member of the First Christian Church in Bluff City, Tenn.. Mrs. Smith and her late husband James R. Smith were co-owners of Smith Brothers Furniture Company in Elizabethton. Survivors include a son, Charles E. Smith and his wife, Peggy, of Louisville, Ky.; a daughter, Linda K. Brewer and her husband, Carl, of Bluff City, Tenn.; a sister, Francis Nidiffer, of Johnson City; two brothers, Robert Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Jack Miller, of Naples, Fla.; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by two sisters, Margaret White and Mildred Welch, both of Elizabethton. Funeral services for Louise Miller Smith will be held at 8 p.m. on Monday, December 8, 2003 in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with Minister Richard Kirkland officiating. Committal services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at the Shelby Hills Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. prior to the service on Monday. Honorary pallbearers will be Dustin, Justin, and Christopher Joyner, and Matthew, Nicholas, and Kevin Brewer. Online condolences may be sent to www. weaverfuneralhome.net. Weaver Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Elizabethton Star http://www.starhq.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------