Funeral services for Maud Rae Smith will be held at First Baptist Church in Mansfield, LA on Monday, October 7, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. with Rev. Thumper Miller and Rev. Joe Wagner officiating. Family will receive friends for visitation at the church on Monday from 10:00 a.m. until service time. Interment will be held at Antioch Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery in Quitman, LA at 4:00 p.m.
Maud was born on January 18, 1927 in Quitman, Louisiana to James Robert “Rob” Deese and Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Stewart Deese. Mrs. Smith entered into rest on September 21, 2019 in Mansfield, Louisiana.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband James Nelton “Butch” Smith; brothers Aubrey Deese, J.L. Deese, and Gordon Deese; daughter-in-law Melanie Smith; granddaughter Kimberly Boyd Savoy and great-granddaughter Kimberly Breann Bartch.
Those left behind to cherish her memory are her son Donny Smith of Mansfield, LA; daughter Rita Boyd & husband Ed of Lafayette, LA; grandchildren Kyle Edward Boyd of Lafayette, LA and Shannon Smith Bartch & husband Jeffrey of Zwolle, LA; great-grandchildren Grant, Myla & Walker Bartch.
Honoring Mrs. Smith as pallbearers will be Jeffrey Bartch, Ed Boyd, Chuck Dowden, J. C. Ward, Carroll Smith and Steven Spurlock.