Lucretia Smith

TALLAPOOSA -- Lucretia Ann Smith, 60, died July 8, 2003, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

Born April 25, 1943, in Kennett, daughter of the late George Andrew and Lillie Harmon Woollums, she was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church in Tallapoosa.

On Sept. 16, 1965, in Coldwater, Mich., she married Quention Franklin "Frank" Smith who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: two daughters, Barbara Copeland of Tallapoosa and Tracy Gaskins of Holcomb; five sons, Perry Gaskins of Sikeston, Joe Smith of Tallapoosa, Dewayne Smith of Kennett and Franklin Smith and Donald Smith of Poplar Bluff; one brother, George Woollums of Clarkton; and eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were one son, Thomas Eugene Smith; three sisters, Hazel Hall, Betty Skief and Mona Rawls; and four brothers, Marion Woollums, Raymond Woollums, J.L. Woollums and Doyle Woollums.

Visitation begins at 6 p.m. today at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden, where services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday. The Rev. Jim Corman will officiate.

Burial will follow in the Stanfield Cemetery at Clarkton.