Bobby Jean Carter Smith

Published 11:23 am Thursday, January 5, 2012

JACKSON — Services for Bobby Jean “BJ” Carter Smith will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Locust Grove M.B. Church with the Rev. Johnny Williams officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be Friday from noon until 6 p.m. at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home.

Mrs. Smith died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. She was 65.

Mrs. Smith was a 1964 graduate of Rosa A. Temple High School, where she played basketball, and Hinds Community College. She served in the Army. She was a licensed practical nurse in Vicksburg for 31 years.

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She was preceded in death by her parents, Sandy Carter Sr. and Agnes Brown Carter; and her brother, Arthur “Pee Wee” Carter.

Survivors include three daughters, Yolanda Kaye Colon of Killeen, Texas, Mary Emma Strong of Jackson and Cassandra Ann Lumpkin of Vicksburg; three sisters, Agnes Ann Carter and Julia Marie Carter, both of Vicksburg, and Betty Davis of Jackson; five brothers, Willie Lee Carter, Sandy Carter II, Joseph Carter, Charles Ellison Carter and Julius Carter, all of Vicksburg; six grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.