Obit – Mrs. Jeanette Hailey Smith
A lifelong Lock Seven Community resident, Mrs. Jeanette Hailey Smith, was discovered unresponsive at her Lock Seven Lane home by her daughter shortly after noon on Tuesday. She was pronounced deceased on Tuesday afternoon October 29, 2024 at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room at 1:29 p.m. Mrs. Smith was 79.
Mrs. Smith’s pastor of over thirty-nine years, Eld. Junior Dickerson, officiated at the 1 p.m. Friday afternoon November 1st funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home.
Burial followed in the Smith family lot in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Smith was the only daughter of five children and was born Ann Jeantte Hailey in the Lock Seven Community on March 3, 1945 and was the daughter of the late Allen Winfred Hailey who died at the age of 70 on December 15, 1977 and Lela Myrtle Thomas Hailey who died June 30, 2004 at the age of 88.
Mrs. Smith faced a difficult time in the beginning of 2024 in that she lost a son-in-law, Casey Edward Miller who died from cancer on May 25, 2024 at the age of 42 and a son, Michael Kyle “Mike” Smith who died accidently two days later on May 27, 2024 also at the age of 42.
Also preceding her in death were three of her four brothers, Jimmy Dale “Jim” Hailey who died April 29, 2020 at the age of 77, Thomas Allen Hailey who died September 3, 2008 at the age of 73 and Jack Fisher Hailey who died February 4, 2002 at the age of 63.
Shortly following graduation, she was saved at the age of 18 and was baptized into the full fellowship of the Plunketts Creek Missionary Church in the Rock City Community and the baptism was performed by the late Eld. Walter Deweese.
She was a 1964 graduate of Smith County High School where she was a member of the Smith County High School marching band and also was in the Spring Festival all four years. Her major was business education and she minored in home economics. She was also a member of the junior play production staff and her senior year was a member of the Black & Gold staff, which produced the school newspaper.
It was stated of her in the ’64 school annual; “a captivating smile…unassuming manner…wish I were going to Florida.”
She was a longtime employee of the Texas Boot Corporation in Carthage and retired in 1994 from the Magna Tech Corporation in Gordonsville.
Surviving is her daughter, Liane Hailey Miller of the Graveltown Community; six grandchildren, Brandon Gibbs, Hailey Gibbs, Thomas Gibbs, Terrance Gibbs, Destiny Gibbs, and Kasper Smith; two great-grandchildren, Briley Gibbs and Kora-Ann Gibbs; Gary Hailey and wife Wanda of the Lock Seven Community.
The Smith family requests memorials to the Plunketts Creek Missionary Baptist Church.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
