Mrs. Frances Isabelle Smith, 86, of Fitzgerald, died Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at her residence.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M., Saturday, August 18, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Fitzgerald, with Rev. Steve Waldorf officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 until 9 Friday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Smith was born July 1, 1921 in Fitzgerald, to the late Luther C. and Mittie Gaff Padgette. She was a homemaker and lived in the community all of her life. Mrs. Smith attended Lynwood and Fitzgerald High School. She was a member of Central United Methodist Church, where she was a Merry Maker, a member of the Upper Room Sunday School Class and a member of the United Methodist Women.
She is survived by her daughters & sons-in-law, Frances S. & James D. Rowell of Valdosta, Julia & Walter Rogers of Hiawassee and Betty Joyce & Don Ray of Fitzgerald; sons & daughters-in-law, James O. & Rose Smith of Fitzgerald and Michael B. & Linda Smith of Steele, AL; 4 granddaughters, 5 grandsons, 9 great granddaughters and 9 great grandsons; sisters, Rosa Mandon of Blairsville, Juliette Bowen of Snellville, Juliene Wilson of Fitzgerald and Marie Milner of Deer Park, TX; brothers, Sammie Padgette of Pascagoula, MS and Delano Padgette of Fitzgerald. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Boyce O. Smith and 2 brothers, W.C. and Henry Padgette.