Robert Lee Smith Sr.

Published 11:00 am Thursday, September 25, 2014

Services for Robert Lee Smith Sr. will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, at Pleasant Valley M.B. Church on Mississippi 27 with the Rev. Joe Harris officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Mr. Smith died Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, at his home. He was 61.

He was a retired truck driver for the Waterways Experiment Station and a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He was a member of Pleasant Valley M.B. Church, and a former member of the American Legion.

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He was preceded in death by his parents, Isiah and Roberta Hegler Smith.

Survivors include his wife, Eulonda Gail Smith of Vicksburg; four sons, Timothy Smith of Pascagoula, Jerry Williams of Nashville, Tenn., and Robert L. Smith Jr.  and Carlos Smith, both of Vicksburg; two daughters, Tiffany Smith and Christie Smith, both of Vicksburg; 18 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and cousins and other friends and relatives.