Barbara Ann Smith

1950 - 2023

Barbara Ann Smith obituary, 1950-2023

Barbara Ann Smith

1950 - 2023

BORN

1950

DIED

2023

Barbara Smith Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Branford Dawson Funeral Home Inc. - Temple from Feb. 12 to Feb. 13, 2023.

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Barbara Ann Smith was born November 4, 1950, to Joseph Kidd and Barbara Faye Jackson in Trenton, New Jersey. She graduated from Trenton High School in Trenton, New Jersey and received licenses as a Certified Nursing Assistant and in Phlebotomy from Burlington County College in New Jersey. She was a member of Seventh Day Adventist Church in Temple, Texas. She worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant for 16 years at Deborah Heart and Lung Hospital in Browns Mills, New Jersey and as a phlebotomist for 5 years at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister and one brother.

Survivors are her spouse, Carl Sargent of Temple; one son, Cecil Bryant III of California; daughters, Ann Bryant Oliver of North Carolina, and Tyra Porcher and Theresa Juniewicz both of Temple; one sister, Pamela Springs of Country Lakes, New Jersey; 19 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren; and a host of relatives and friends.


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