Louise Smith

LOUISE SMITH

 Lexington, TN: Sarah Louise Stewart Smith, age 103, passed away November 7, 2024, at Heritage Place in Lexington, TN.

She was born November 11, 1920, in Reagan, TN the daughter of the late Alford Thomas and Electa Lee Wilkins Stewart. She graduated from Scotts Hill High in 1938. She moved to Henderson in 1941. She was married to Hulan Smith in 1942. She sat for the first cosmetology board for the state of Tennessee in 1940. She operated a beauty shop in Henderson for twenty-two years. She went back to school at the age of fifty and earned her nursing degree. After graduating from Nursing School, she worked at Jackson General Hospital prior to being employed by Southwest Tennessee Human Resource Agency. Head Start Program working as a nurse for twenty-two years, retiring in 1994. 

She was a member of the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) and the Henderson Business and Professional Woman’s Club.

She was a member of the First Methodist Church in Henderson and was President of United Methodist Women and a member of the Administrative Board.

Mrs. Smith is survived by nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Hulan Smith; two sisters, Bernice Maness and Virginia Lockley and five brothers, Norman Stewart, Berle Stewart, Charles Stewart, Jerome Stewart and Bill Stewart.

Funeral services will be 11:00 AM Friday, November 15th at the First Methodist Church with Randy Lockley and Keith Brown officiating. Burial will follow at Union Hill Cemetery in Henderson County.

The family will receive friends at the First Methodist Church 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM service time on Friday.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Christ Church, 11900 Hwy. 70, Arlington, TN 38002.

Shackelford Funeral Directors of Henderson

731-989-2421