Dougherty County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Marie Dean October 24, 2002 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Yeager annmarkvii@yahoo.com and Freddy Page November 29, 2007, 4:47 pm The Albany Herald - Obituaries Marie Dean Smith ALBANY — Marie Dean Smith of Albany, GA, died Thursday evening, October 24, 2002, at the residence of Dr. Duncan and Deborah Marsh. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church with interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. The Rev. Nancy Scarbrough and the Rev. Nathan Godley will officiate. Mrs. Smith graduated from Auburn University with a degree in music education. She taught sophomore English at Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, AL, for 10 years and was also employed as a band director at Bellingraph and Baldwin Junior High Schools. Mrs. Smith was the first female band director in the state of Alabama. Her principal instruments were the oboe and bassoon. Mrs. Smith had also served as a social worker with the Alabama State Board of Pensions and Security. Upon her retirement, Mrs. Smith had lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Dr. Duncan Marsh for the past 21 years. She was a member of Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church. She was married to the late Elno A. Smith Jr. of Montgomery, AL, for 28 years. Survivors include three other daughters, Denise Smith Rosen of Land O'Lakes, FL, Daphne Smith Guy and husband Bob of Birmingham, AL, and Dr. DeMoi Smith Crawford of Silverhill, AL; granddaughters, Stacey Strickland of Orlando, FL, Yvonne Hargrove of San Francisco, CA, Amie Marsh-McCook and husband Jody of Athens, GA, and Lauren Crawford of Silverhill, AL; grandsons,Michael Crawford of Silverhill, AL, and Adam Rosen of Land O'Lakes, FL. The family will receive friends at Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Home Sunday from 6 p.m.- 8 p.m. Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors Albany 229/883-4152 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dougherty/obits/s/smith10760ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb