Michael Preston Smith

Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, December 2, 2013, at Memory Hill Cemetery, interment will follow with Byrd Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from noon until 1:30 p.m. on Monday. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the Boy Scouts of America.

Mike was born in Dothan, June 20, 1959, and graduated from Dothan High School and went on to play football at the University of Tennessee. He served for many years as an administrator for the Boy Scouts of America in Virginia Beach, VA and Chattanooga, TN. He returned to Dothan in 1997 and was self-employed for several years. At the time of his death, he was employed with Southeast Alabama Medical Center in environmental services.

Mike was preceded in death by his father, Arthur Preston Smith, and his mother, Willa Jean Spivey.

Survivors include his significant other, Carolyn Gordon; her children, Laura Pate and Angela Phillips; and cousins, Cassandra Shepard, Wanda Huguley and Robert Walker.