NAME: Cornell Harty Smith

AGE:   85

RESIDENCE:   Texarkana, TX

DIED:     Saturday, February 2, 2019

PLACE:   Grapevine, TX

BACKGROUND

BIRTHDATE:   July 8, 1933

BIRTHPLACE:     Kildare, TX

OCCUPATION:   Educator – Retired from Liberty-Eylau ISD

CHURCH AFFILIATION:   Mt. Orange Baptist Church – served as founding deacon and Sunday school teacher

MILITARY AFFILIATION:    A decorated - Retired solider of the United States Army -received many medals and commendations including the Purple Heart.

FRATERNITY CONNECTIONS:  Kappa Alpha Psi

CIVIC & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:  Texas Democratic Party, Texas Retired Teachers Association, Neighborhood Watch Captain, Board Member of the Texarkana Mental Health and Rehabilitation

SURVIVORS

3 SONS:   Byron Erwin Smith of Colleyville, TX and former wife Felisha McKinley Smith of Colleyville, TX; Cornell Harty Smith, II of Fort Worth, TX and Keith Lenard Smith of Colleyville, TX

1 DAUGHTER:   Alicia Renee' Smith-Washington of Keller, TX

3 GRANDCHILDREN:   Jordan Taylor Smith of Las Colinas, TX; McKinley Grant Smith of Colleyville, TX (Ashlee Riggins, Girlfriend) and Gregory LaCharles Washington, II of Keller, TX

1 GREAT-GRANDSON:  Theo M. Smith of Washington, DC

SPECIAL FRIEND:   Erma Brockman of Texarkana, TX

SERVICE:

TIME/DAY:    Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 1:00 P.M.

PLACE:    Mt. Orange Baptist Church – 2510 W 10 ^th Street

OFFICIATING:   Bishop Johnny Riley

VISITATION:   Friday, February 8, 2019 from 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. at the mortuary

BURIAL:   Chapelwood Memorial Gardens – Wake Village – with full military honors