Grace Smith

September 15, 1920 - March 26, 2016

Celebratory Service for the Life of Mrs. Grace Reed Smith will begin at 2:00 pm, Friday, April 1, 2016 at Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 101 Charles Beaty Road, Iva, SC 29655. She will be laid to rest in the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. Family will be gathering at 410 Pettigrew Road, Starr, SC 29684. Grace was born September 15, 1920 to the late Charles and Annie M. Reed, she departed this life on Saturday, March 26, 2016 at her home after a brief illness she was the last survivor of her immediate family. Grace joined the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church at an early age she served on the Gospel Chorus, Senior Choir, missionary, deaconess, teacher association, and other organizations. Grace attended public schools in Anderson County, she went to Benedict College to receive her Degree in Education; after graduating from college she started her career teaching at Anderson County School District Three for over thirty years until she retired. She was very well known through out the community and never meet a stranger. Grace was married to the late James Smith she leaves to cherish fond memories, three sons, William (Sheila) Smith of Starr, S.C., Barry (JoEva) Smith of Starr, S.C., Willie James (Marian) Smith of Anderson, S.C., a daughter-in-law, Joyce A. Smith of Starr, S.C., fifteen grandchildren, twenty-nine great-grand, one great-great-grand, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband James Smith, son Bobby Smith, two grandsons, Dyree Smith, Shannon Smith, one great-grand, Annicah Page Smith, two sisters, Mildred and Nettie, five brothers, Claude, Ralph, Winston, Grady and Luther Reed..