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Doretha Estelle "Dot" Smith
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Funeral services for Doretha Estelle “Dot” Smith, 89, of West Monroe, Louisiana, will be held at 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home, with Pastor Rusty Grant officiating. Interment will follow immediately after at Roselawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery, under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home. The visitation will be held from 12:30 P.M. until the time of service on Wednesday.
Dot was born on February 2, 1935, in Hebert, Louisiana, and passed away on May 17, 2024, in West Monroe, Louisiana.
Mrs. Smith was a homemaker, a mother, and grandmother. She loved home interior, and she was a secretary at Edgewood Baptist Church for many years. As well as a secretary for many doctor’s offices in NELA.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Smith; parents, Sammy and Cammie Whittington; sons, Robert Keith Smith and Kenneth Arthur Smith; and brothers, Charles Whittington and Lewis Whittington; sisters-in-law, Mary Smith and Lucille Smith; brother-n-law, Sherman Johnston; Kevin’s companions, Tammy Renee McCarty and Dianna Bradley.
Those left to cherish her memory are her son, James Kevin Smith; sisters-in-law, Melba Whittington and Bea Johnston; grandchildren, Stacy Nicole Smith-Murphy, Jamie Katrice Owen, DC Owen, Samuel Warren Smith, Justin Kenneth and his fiancé, Brandy Primm, Candice Townsend, Kealynn Harper, and Gabriel Northcut; great grandchildren, Abby Murphy, Bella Murphy, Savannah Murphy, David Owen, Caleb, and Abbi Primm.
The pallbearers will be Robert Leith, David Owen, Sammy Smith, Justin Smith, Maurice Nelson, Ralph May, and Bo Smith.
The honorary pallbearer will be Brad Clark.
In lieu of flowers please make donations to Rolling Hills Ministry or The American Heart Association.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
300 McMillian Rd, West Monroe, LA 71291
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