Jimmie Juanita Prestidge Smith

Funeral services for Jimmie Juanita Prestidge Smith, 90, of Hawkins will be 10:00 a.m., Thursday, November 1, 2018 at the Lyle Street Church of Christ in Big Sandy. Burial will take place at Franklin Cemetery in Franklin, Texas at 3:00 p.m. following services. The family will receive friends from 9:00 a.m. until service time. Mrs. Smith passed away on Monday, October 29, 2018, in Tyler.

Mrs. Smith was born July 6, 1928 in Franklin, Texas to the late Ralph Anderson Prestidge and Ellen Eliza Sutter Prestidge. Juanita worked for Avon Cosmetics for 52 years before retiring and she also worked in the Food Service Dept. for Hawkins ISD for many years before retiring. She enjoyed painting and music; but her real joy came from gardening and decorating her yard. Juanita was a member of the Lyle Street Church of Christ in Big Sandy. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great great grandmother and homemaker. Juanita will not soon be forgotten by all the loving family and friends she leaves behind.

Juanita is preceded in death by her parents and husband of 57 years Claude B. Smith who passed away in 2003.

She is survived by three children Claudette Klatt and husband Charlie of Rockport, Jacqueline Kay Hall and husband Hubert of Hawkins and Clyde Smith and wife Jennifer of Deer Park, ten grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren as well as many other loving family and friends.