Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, February 9, 2008

MERTIE SMITH MEREDITH

Riser Funeral Home
Columbia, LA

Services for Mertie Smith Meredith, age 99 of Columbia will be held at 2 P.M, Saturday, February 9, 2008 from the chapel of Riser Funeral Home in Columbia with Rev. James Prince officiating. Interment will follow in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery west of Columbia.

Mrs. Meredith was born in Colfax on January 25, 1909 to the union of Grover C. and Mandy Maddox Smith and died Thursday, February 7, 2008 at the West Monroe Guest House in West Monroe. She was a homemaker and worked in the Caldwell Parish School cafeterias. She was a member of the Columbia Heights Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband: Sidney Homer Meredith and her son: Maurice Meredith.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law: Robert and Doris Meredith of Mansfield, her daughter-in-law: Dolores Meredith of Monroe, her grandchildren: Seth and Jennifer Meredith, Suzanne and John Brossette five great-grandchildren and her brother: R.D. Smith of Natchitoches.

Pallbearers will be Charles Brown, Barry Wiley, John Brossette, Seth Meredith, Blaine Cobb and Kenny Travis.

Any planned memorials may be made to the Columbia Heights Baptist Church Building Fund or the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon until time of services.