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Bobbie Jo Stanley Smalley, age 86, passed away on May 31, 2025. She was born on April 18, 1939, in Dallas, Texas to Jack and Lorene Stanley.
A visitation will be held from 1:00 p.m. with a service to follow at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, June 9, 2025, located at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Drive, Shreveport, LA 71118. Burial will be held at Colonial Gardens Cemetery in Marshall, Texas.
Bobbie graduated with her GED from Southwood High School and was so proud! She was an accountant for many years and excelled at it. Bobbie will be remembered best as a people person who would do anything for anyone and she loved her family dearly.
Bobbie was preceded in death by her husband of 41 years who passed in 1996, Otis Wright Smalley, Jr. and son, Terry Vance Smalley who passed in October of 2023. Left to cherish her memory include her daughter, Gail Johnson of Jefferson, AR; son, Otis Wayne Smalley of Shreveport, LA; 5 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
She will be dearly missed by many loved ones.
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