THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL
Daytona Beach, Florida
Wednesday, August 6, 2008


Funeral service for E. Chestene Smith, 81, Seville, Fla., who died August 4, 2008, at Florida Hospital DeLand, will be 10 a.m. Friday, August 8, 2008, at Allen-Summerhill Memorial Chapel, DeLand, with Bobby Medders officiating. Calling hours will be Thursday, August 7, 2008, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Allen-Summerhill Funeral Home, DeLand.

Mrs. Smith was born in Seville, Fla., and lived in Volusia County her whole life. She was a homemaker and a member of McGlon Pentecostal Holiness Church, Seville, and she enjoyed reading and sewing.

She was predeceased by her husband, Gordon Lee Smith, in 1996.

Survivors include her sons, Gary and Caroline Wells, Mineral Wells, Texas, James Smith, Seville, Fla., Robert and Joyce Smith, Pierson, Fla., and Ronald and Mary Smith, Seville; daughters, Cynthia Tullis, Seville, and Sharon and J.C. Oneal, Seville, and Soni Smith, Atlanta, Ga.; 15 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Allen-Summerhill Funeral Home, DeLand, is in charge of arrangements.