Daisy A. Smith

SMITH, Daisy Daisy Lane Andrews Smith Daisy Lane Andrews Smith passed away surrounded by her loving family on Friday, May 18, 2012 following a brief illness. Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. C. Jay Smith, as well as her parents, Judge E.E. and Daisy Andrews and her brother, Edward Andrews. She was born on November 19, 1925 in Toccoa, Georgia but moved to Atlanta at the age of 3 weeks when her father was elected the youngest ever member of the Georgia House of Representatives. She attended Washington Seminary (later the Westminster Schools) and attended the University of Georgia where she was a member of the Phi Beta Pi sorority and was elected a "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi". Following college she worked for the AT & T corporation as well as Clerk of the Court in her father's Fulton County Superior courtroom. In 1951 she married Jay Smith and moved with him first to Athens, GA and then Tallahassee, Florida where he was a professor of history at the University of Georgia and then Florida State University. She also enjoyed her role as "Navy Wife" when her husband, Captain Jay Smith, held the Ernest J. King Chair at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island in the mid 1960s. While in Athens, she served two terms as president of the local chapter of the Y.W.C.O. She and her husband and daughters took many wonderful trips around America and to Europe and Russia during summer vacations. Following the death of her husband in 1979, she returned to Atlanta and cared for her parents until their deaths in the mid-1980s. She was a loving mother to Lane Smith Witter (Kurt) and Susan Andrews Smith Raven (Neil) as well as a devoted grandmother to Ashley Lane Witter and Adam Jay Witter (Brooks). Daisy was a loyal, unselfish friend and an active member of Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church and the Friendship Sunday School class. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Magna Charta Dames. Funeral services for Daisy Smith will be at 1:00 p.m. Monday, May 21, 2012 at Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, Atlanta. Visitation will be at the church on Monday beginning at 11:30 a.m. Burial will follow the service at Westview Cemetery. Donations in Mrs. Smith's memory may be made to Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church. Online condolences made be made at hmpattersonspringhill.com