Louise Corrina Terrell Smith

By Staff
April 20, 2009
Funeral for Louise Corrina Terrell Smith, 90, of Hartselle was Wednesday, April 22, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Hartselle with Dr. Jeff Redmond officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing.
Burial was in Gatlin Cemetery in Ardmore.
Mrs. Smith died Monday, April 20, 2009, at Parkway Medical Center. She was born August 11, 1918, in Morehead, Miss., to Thomas Jefferson Terrell and Alva Veona Pittman Terrell. She attended business school and later worked in Memphis at an aircraft facility during the War, then moved to Ardmore to join her cousin in the restaurant business where she met her future husband. They had one daughter, Bobbie Joe Smith. After she and her family moved to Decatur, she started work for the Decatur City School System and later served as a cafeteria supervisor at Austinville and Nungester Elementary. She retired to help raise her two grandchildren. She was a Baptist and was an active member of Austinville Baptist and Hartselle First Baptist Church. She was especially involved in the mission activities. Mrs. Smith was well known within her family, church family and community friends to be skilled in cooking and sewing. Many people remember her unofficial “ministry” of baking loaves of homemade sourdough bread in addition to cooking delicious meals and desserts. She truly had a gift for serving others and will always be remembered for the loving kindness and hospitality she shared with everyone she met. She was preceded in death by her husband, Homer Alton Smith; two sisters and four brothers.
She is survived by a sister, Minnie Mae McCallie; a brother, Sanford Leroy Terrell; her daughter, Bobbie Wesson and husband Bob; and two grandchildren, Clay Edward Wesson and Elizabeth Anne Wesson.
Pallbearers were Steve McKee, Jim Smith, Dwight Cross, Barry Pearson, Wayne Brown, Dan Sparkman, Randy Maner and Roy Terrell.