Smyth County, Virginia, Obituaries:  Robert Lee Smith

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Bristol Herald Courier
Sunday, March 30, 2003

Robert Lee Smith

SALTVILLE -- Mr. Robert Lee (Bobby Lee) Smith, 73, went to be with the Lord on
Saturday, March 29, 2003, at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical
Center in Mountain Home, Tenn. Mr. Smith was of the Baptist faith. He was a U.S.
Army veteran having served in the Korean conflict and a recipient of the Purple
Heart. He was preceded in death by his father, Curtis Smith; and one sister,
Doris Ann Price. 

Survivors: his wife of 51 years, Billie Collins Smith, Saltville; three
daughters, Deborah S. Whitehead, Delores S. Frye and Mitzi S. Poe and husband
Steve, all of Saltville; one son and daughter-in-law, David and JoElla Smith,
Saltville; his mother, Frances Smith Davidson, Saltville; one brother, Jerry W.
Smith, Saltville; seven grandchildren, Erik, Melissa, Jonathan, Kayla, Dakota,
Julia and Keelyn; four great-grandchildren, Hunter, Devin, Brianna and Kelsey;
several nieces and nephews; and special friends, Patsy Kestner, Allen Cardwell,
Tommy Frye, Buck and Bill Jones and many others.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at the
Henderson's Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bob Surber and Rev. Benny Frye
officiating. Burial will follow in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Military rites
will be conducted by Saltville V.F.W. Post 7328. The family will receive friends
from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Henderson's Funeral Home.

D.R. Henderson Funeral Home will be serving the Smith family.