Robert Smith

Robert 'Smitty' Leonard Smith, age 78, died Sunday, August 30, 2009 at Autumn Care of Forest City.
Robert was born on January 26, 1931 in Selma, Alabama to the late Willie Clayton Smith and Claudia Mae Taylor Smith. He worked as a tile mechanic most of his life and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He attended Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church and Temple Baptist Church. He was a devoted worker at both churches and delivered Meals on Wheels. He also enjoyed feeding squirrels and birds.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 47 years, Dorothy Rose Guffey; four brothers; one sister and his step-mother, Fannie Bette Smith.
Survivors include one son, Wayne Smith and his wife Rhonda of Forest City; three daughters, Susan Kranich of Forest City, Keeley Laws and her husband Joe of Caroleen and Cammy Reed and her husband Chuck of Spindale; one brother, Raeford Smith of Orrville, AL; two sisters, Betty Wayne Martin of Selma, AL and Margie Marcus of Centerville, AL. He is also survived by four grandchildren, Stephen Silver, Lindsey Reed, Keeley Grigg and Haley Smith.