Daddy I can't believe it's been 2 years since you passed I miss you and I love you. Love your daughter. 
Kathie Smolik. 💔

I can't believe you've been gone for 2 years already sometimes it feel like yesterday and other times it feels like forever! I miss you Daddy. 😢

My papaw and me hung out a lot when I was a kid he taught me how to hammer nails he would take me fishing. He was always making me laugh as a kid I know he will be missed but now he isn’t suffering anymore on this Earth he is walking around in Heaven singing and rejoicing 

Ricky was a great man. He was so good to my son Blake. He looked up to Ricky and Blake was always helping him out. He cared so much about Ricky, it breaks my heart to see a good man gone. But I know we will all meet again some day in Gods Time.  Fly high slicky Ricky. We love you. 

The Spencer Family. 

This man was a very good friend to mY dad he worked with him for as long as I can remember threw there friendship I met his daughters and a few years later came little Ricky . But this family is like my family we all grew up together we had a lot of memories in that  little yellow house he will be missed 

I love you papaw❤ you will be missed. Im so thankful though that we will meet again someday!

I knew Ricky for several years....he was a good friend and helped me out on several occasions...when I needed to be somewhere and didn't have a way he would offer to take me...and he loved my grandson Aiden (and his),and he could be so funny with him...we always had a great time with him. I,for one, will miss him greatly....fly high with the Angels Ricky and I will see you again on the other side...💜💜

Going to miss you uncle Rick you was such a great person always treated me like I was one of your own you will be missed love you and see you later 

Daddy I'm so glad that we got to make peace with each other.I'm going to miss you.I find comfort in knowing that you are with Grandpa and Granny and your brothers and sister and our Precious baby Kaylee.
I love you Daddy forever and always 
           Love Kathie❤


We are so sorry about Ricky passing. He will be greatly missed. Everyone in our thoughts and prayers. Roger and Joyce Woodward

Daddy I already miss you ,we had a lot of really great times and we had some not so great times but I always Loved you and looked up to you. I know you loved us kids too , I really loved when we would have chicken and dumplings on the weekends and all the kids would play together and all the times going fishing ! We will see each other again some day. God's Word Tells me so! I Love You Daddy. !! Your mind is at peace now. Love Donna

So many things can be said about this man. Ricky was my step father. Raised me as if I was he own blood. Ricky loved me as much as I loved him. I learned alot from this man. "Papaw" was his new name once my kids where old enough to talk.  Their are so many great memories with him an they all mean the world to me but the one that ment the most was the last several hours with him.  It was like the good old days of me and him being somewhere any where together as father and son. I'll love you forever an always

I remember riding to church every Sunday 
morning with you and your dad when we were young.You act like my big brother and made me feel secure.I know your having a reunion in heaven with your mom and dad.Now rest in peace with no more  pain 
                         Gail  



What can I say? He's my dad and they don't make them like him anymore.. If you knew him you know exactly what I mean.. Almost every weekend he could be found under the hood of a car.. He was a simple man that lived that way his whole life.. He had a wild streak ten miles long that got shorter the older he got, but he had a big heart to match.. he was the definition of Mr.Misunderstood..I love you dad and will never forget our times together fishing, shooting, teaching me about cars, heavy equipment, and the list goes on and on..

Ricky  was my uncle,but he helped raise me,because I stayed at his house alot. Donna and Kathie were, and still are like my sisters.  Little  Ricky was my  baby brother. 
  When my own daddy died,uncle Ricky'sbrother  Bobby.  Uncle Ricky became daddy Ricky to me. I keep wanting to go see him, then I  realize he's  no longer with us,it makes me sad. 😪 I know where he's  at, he's  in heaven with Jesus,daddy,grandpa and other loved ones,so therefore  it makes me happy also... I  miss and love you daddy Ricky.         Love,Sherry
                               

OBITUARY

Ricky Martin Smolik

December 14, 1948 – November 26, 2020

Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services – Franklin-Strickland Chapel

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