Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Brett, Marion Smart 1947
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 10-03-1947, P. 8
MARION SMART BRETT

   Mrs. Marion Smart Brett, wife of Charles Worth Brett and daughter of Coyle 
Bedford Smart and Mrs. Gladys McCollum Smart, died in Raiford Memorial Hospital 
on Friday night, September 26, after an illness of several weeks. She was 22 
years of age.

   Mrs. Brett was a native of South Carolina, but came early in life with her 
parents to make her home near Sunbeam, where she lived until her marriage last 
winter, when she went to make her home in Como, N.C. She was a graduate of 
Newsoms High School, class of 1942.

   Surviving her are her husband and infant daughter, Jane Worth Brett; her 
parents and three brothers, John, George and Gary Smart of Sunbeam; and a number 
of relatives in North and South Carolina.

   Funeral services were conducted at Buckhorn Baptist Church on Sunday 
afternoon by her pastor, Rev. John W. Morrison of the Newsoms Methodist Church, 
assisted by Rev. John Lanier, her husband’s pastor. The deceased was a member of 
Mt. Horeb Methodist Church, and a choir composed mostly of Mt. Horeb members 
sang “Abide With Me.” Joel Cook Holland of Murfreesboro sang “Lead Kindly 
Light,” “Day Is Dying In The West” was sung at the graveside in the church 
cemetery. The casket was covered with a double spray of red rosebuds, Madonna 
lilies, baby’s breath and ferns. There were many other lovely floral pieces, and 
a large crowd bore witness of the love and esteem of her many friends and loved 
ones. We cannot understand why one so young, with life so full of promise, 
should have to leave us so soon. But “Sometime We’ll Understand.”

   “We will not think of her as dead,/ Who walks with us no more./ Along the 
paths of life we tread,/ She has but gone before.”

   The pallbearers were Ned Evans, Wilmer Wise, Walter Franklin Drake, Paul 
Icard, Grant Curle, Olin Lee and J.G. Cobb.

   Those who came from a distance for the funeral were: Mrs. G.S. Teague and Mr. 
and Mrs. Wallace Crommer of Whitmire, S.C.; John McCollum of Carlisle, S.C.; 
Mrs. Zeb McKinney and Bill Smart of Forest City, N.C.; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Icard 
of Raleigh, N.C.; Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Padgett and daughter, Polly of Camden, S.C. 
and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harrell of Chapel Hill, N.C.

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