Buchanan County, Virginia, Obituaries:  Allen Ray Smith

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Bristol Herald Courier
Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Allen Ray Smith

    BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. -- Allen Ray Smith, 58 years of age, of the Squire 
Branch area of Slate Creek, passed away Monday, Dec. 9, 2002, at Buchanan 
General Hospital following a short illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was 
a son of Mrs. Bessie Pearl Matney Smith Sanson, Grundy, and the late Andrew 
Dan Smith. He was a life long resident of Buchanan County and a member of 
Vansant Church of Christ. He was a retired employee of Island Creek Coal 
Corp. V.P. No. 3. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving in Germany. 
    Mr. Smith is survived by his mother, Mrs. Bessie Pearl Matney Smith 
Sanson, Grundy; his wife, Mrs. Judy Marie Stacy Smith, Stacy, Va.; three 
sons, Gregory Allen and wife, Tammy Smith of Statesville, N.C., and Ricky 
Ray and wife Michelle Smith of Stacy and Brian Keith Smith of Stacy; three 
sisters, Nancy Belcher, Grundy, Mary Anne Stacy, Gastonia, N.C., and Gloria 
Jean Owens, Gastonia; and five grandchildren. 
    He was preceded in death by one stepbrother, Buster Dotson.
    Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002, at 11 a.m. 
at the Bee Branch Regular Baptist Church on Slate Creek with Evangelist Mike 
Rife and Evangelist Michael Trent officiating with burial to follow in 
Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Va.
    Friends may call at the Bee Branch Regular Baptist Church Tuesday 
evening at 6 p.m. with services at 7 p.m. conducted by Minister Andy Maynard 
and services Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. conducted by Evangelist Mike Rife 
and Michael Trent. Active pallbearers will be Roscoe Crouse, Ricky Crouse, 
Harold Vandyke, Jimmy Messer, Ricky Stiltner, Curtis Baldwin, Lawrence 
Mullins, Arthur Woods and Eugene Whited.
    Full military rites will e conducted at the cemetery by members of John 
Ratliff Post No. 164 of the American Legion.
    Grundy Funeral Home of Grundy is in charge of all arrangements.