Dorothy Malone Smith

Donelson, Tennessee

Our mother, grandmother and friend to many, Dorothy Malone Smith, who loved her nicknames “Dot”, “Dottie” and “Nanny”, passed away on August 17th, 2023 at the age of eighty-nine. Born to John Henry Malone and Effie Clara McKee Malone on September 8, 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, she worked her parents’ farm in Donelson as a child and teenager and graduated at the top of her class from Donelson High School in 1951. She went to Tennessee Tech University and met the love of her life, Irving Garrett Smith, of Joelton, Tennessee, and began a marriage that lasted over seventy years. After earning her Bachelor's, she further achieved a Masters in Education from Middle Tennessee State University and an “honorary Doctorate in Education” from the University of Missouri, being the driving force and primary typist extraordinaire behind her husband’s attainment of said Doctorate. Later, as an elementary school teacher in the Metro Nashville/Davidson County School system, she taught just about every grade - teaching at Dodson Chapel Elementary School and Haynes Middle School - for a teaching career that spanned over 25 years. She loved to travel, square dance, and be the best wife, mom, and grandmother she could be. She spent the last 37 years of her life traveling the world with her beloved husband, Smitty, who just recently passed away at age ninety-four in June this year. They loved cruising, snowmobiling and basically going anywhere a plane or RV could take them with their friends and family.

She leaves behind her son, Gil (Bonnie) Smith, and daughter, Gail Smith Bradford, and grandchildren Dillon Smith, Dalton Smith, Tucker Malone Smith, and Danielle Darmohray.

Visitation with family Tuesday from 1pm till time of service at Hibbett & Hailey Funeral Home. Celebration of Life will be held 2:30 pm Tuesday with Rev. Mike Potts, officiating. Interment to follow at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens with Gil Smith, Dillon Smith, Dalton Smith, Tucker Malone Smith, Gene Biggs, and Spenser Lee serving as pallbearers.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks you consider a donation to the Lee County, Alabama Humane Society, 1140 Ware Dr., Auburn, Alabama 36832, in Dot’s name. She so loved her fur grandbabies.