FAYETTEVILLE - Mrs. Dorothy Ruth Smith, 85, of Fayetteville, died Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
Mrs. Smith was a former employee of the Fort Bragg Credit Union and the Pope Air Force Base Credit Union. She was a member of Main Post chapel on Fort Bragg.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Juanelle Philips and her brother-in-law, William Phillips.
Funeral services will be held at 2p.m. Wednesday in Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home chapel in Fayetteville. Burial will follow in Lafayette Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband, James W. Smith Sr., a retired U.S. Army chief warrant officer 4, of the home; a son, James W. Smith Jr., and his wife, Jane, of Gray, Tenn.; three grandchildren, Kevin Smith and his wife, Kelly, Aaron Rowley and his wife, Meg, and Christy Miller and her husband, Mickey; and six great-grandchildren, Abigail Smith, Carter Smith, Emily Smith, Grayson Rowley, Sydney Miller and Brady Miller.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 11 S. Boylan Ave., Raleigh NC 27603, or online at www.cancer.org.
Services entrusted to Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home.