Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Mary Helen Blackmon May 4 1998
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Valley Times News, Lanett, Alabama
 Lanett --  Mrs. Helen Blackmon Smith, 75, of Lanett died Monday, May 4, 1998, 
at West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange, Ga.
     Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday, May 6, at 11 a.m. at First 
Christian Church in Lanett with the Rev. Howard Merchant officiating.  Burial 
will follow in Marseilles Cemetery in West Point.
     Mrs. Smith is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Robert 
Beard of Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.; her son and daughter-in-law, Robert 
E. "Bobby" and Mila Smith of Grafton, W. Va.; five grandchildren, Jenny, Luke, 
Harley, Rosie and Tina; four sisters, Edna Thompson of Fredonia, Dot Mason of 
Huguley, Ruby Mosley of Valley and Betty Story of Upatoi, Ga.; three sisters-
in-law, Mildred Bartlett,Marinelle Smith, and Sarah Frances Smith, all of 
Valley; three brothers, Sanford Blackmon of Rockville, Md., Bobby Blackmon of 
Fredonia and Franklin Blackmon of LaFayette; and two brothers-in-law, Robert 
E. Smith of Lanett and Niles Dudley Smith of Valley.  
     Born July 3, 1922, in Lanett, Ala., Mrs. Smith was a member of First 
Christian Church of Lanett.  She was a retired supervisor at the former 
Playtex Corp. in LaFayette.  Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and had been active in 
her church, where she served as a deacon, financial secretary, social 
secretary and was active in the Women of the Church.  She was a self-taught 
artist.  Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by her husband, A. Clifford Smith, 
and was the daughter of the late Alice Dickson Blackmon and James Farley 
Blackmon.
     The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 7 until 9 p.m. at 
McCarthy Funeral Home in West Point.
     The family respectfully declines the gift of flowers and asks that 
memorials be made to First Christian Church of Lanett in memory of Mrs. Smith.
     McCarthy Funeral Home in West Point is handling arrangements.

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