Louise Smith

Louise Staton Smith 89, of Sylva, NC. Graduated to Glory Monday February 13, 2012 in Haywood County Hospital. She was born March 4, 1922 in Union County N.C. to the Late Thomas Washington and Lola Eveline Link Staton. Growing up in the eastern part of N.C., she graduated from Garland High School. After graduation she moved to Lexington to work at Coble Dairy, where she met her husband Aldine (Joe) C. Smith. They moved to High Point and Louise began working for Adams-Mills Hosiery Mills. She retired forty years later and she and Joe began traveling to areas of interest anywhere in the U.S. as often as they could. After several medical setbacks for both of them they moved to Sylva to live with their daughter and her husband. Her greatest joy was to be outside working in her flower garden. Her yard in High Point was quite a showplace. When she could not be outside she was working on some craft project that probably involved sewing or painting. Louise loved the Lord and the Church and she was a faithful member of High Point Calvary Church of the Nazarene and later Waynesville Lakeview Church of the Nazarene In addition to her Parents she was preceded in death by sisters, Mary Smith and Cloedeen Johnson; brothers Roy Lee, Forney, James, Henry, Walter, Howard, Clyde, and J.B. Staton and a grandson Dean Henke. She is survived by her husband of 69 years, Aldine (Joe) Smith; two daughters Deborah and her husband R. Paul Smith of Raleigh and Nikki and her husband Ken Henke of Sylva; five sisters, Thelma Stanley of Mechanicsville, VA., Betty Warwick of Elizabethtown, NC, Anne Strickland of Garner, NC, Ruth Cashwell of Garland, NC and Eleanor Bentz of Virginia Beach, VA. 4Grandchildren, 2 Great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. Funeral services will be 2:30 PM Saturday February 18, 2012 at West Fairfield Baptist Church with the Revs. Tim Pullin and Tommy Thompson officiating. Burial will follow in the Floral Garden Cemetery in High Point. The Family will receive friends 2 hours prior the service at the church. Memorials are requested to: Lakeview Church of the Nazarene, Community Outreach Fund, 24 Nazarene Way Waynesville, NC 28785 or Med West Hospice 132 Sylva Plaza, Sylva, NC 28779 or Meals on Wheels, Jackson CountyDept. of Aging, 100 County Services Park, Sylva, NC 28779 Online register www.appalachianfuneralservices.com .