Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Tuesday, February 22, 1983

Rose Smith

HOMER

Services for Mrs. Rose Smith (Mrs. Allen A. Smith), 91, will be held at Pinelands Funeral Home in Homer on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. The Reverend Bently Masingill will officiate. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery in Bernice.

She died Feb. 19, 1983 at Ouachita General Hospital, Cameden [sic Camden], Ark., following a brief illness.

Mrs. Allen [sic Smith] was a native of Winn Parish and had lived most of her life in Claiborne Parish. She was the widow of A. A. Smith, Supervisor of Schools for Claiborne Parish. Both were members of First Baptist Church, Homer.

Survivors include three children, Ralph K. Smith, Homer, Mrs. Hazel Deal, Camden, Ark., and Mrs. Thelma Kinghten [sic Knighten], Homer; one step son, James M. Smith of Ellenwood, Georgia; five grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. May Hearne and Mrs. Gladys Boyette [sic Boyett], both of Shreveport.