Phillip Smallwood

1938, - 2025

SMALLWOOD, Phillip Louis

Phillip Louis Smallwood passed away Tuesday, February 25, 2025. He was born in Metter, Georgia, on November 20,1938, to Forrest and Jessie Johnson Smallwood. After graduating from Emanuel County Institute in Twin City, Georgia, he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree. He was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and of the Army ROTC. After receiving his degree, he served two years as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Baltimore, Maryland.

He returned to Atlanta in 1964, to begin his career in architecture at Toombs, Amisano & Wells, and Cooper Carry. He was a founding partner of Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates (1979), where he was President until his retirement in 1998. Under his leadership the firm added offices domestically, in Tampa, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina, and internationally, in Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai, China, and in Abu Dhabi, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Notable projects included: Ritz-Carlton hotels in Atlanta, and Lake Oconee, Georgia, Orlando, Florida, and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Chick-fil-A corporate headquarters in College Park, Georgia, the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Poydras Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Its corporate clients included Cousins Properties and Trammell Crow Co.

Phil was a member of Garfield United Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Sue; his daughter, Jolie; and son, Scott; their mother, Faye; and two grandchildren, Zoe and Aidan Keysor.

The family is grateful for Torry Maeberry; he put his life on hold for 2 1/2 years, completely devoting himself to Phil's care. We are also grateful for Clardina Boyd, Alisa Anderson, and Clarissa Gibson, who assisted in Phil's care these last three months.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM, March 4, 2025, at H.M. Patterson & Son -- Arlington, in Sandy Springs, Georgia. A reception will follow. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Phil's memory should be made to Leading The Way, PO Box 20100, Atlanta, GA 30325; or to the Hebron Primitive Baptist Cemetery Fund, c/o John W. Cowart, Sr., 70-A Bethany Way, Statesboro, GA 30458.