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Alice Fortner Smith, 81, of Monticello, passed away Saturday, August 4, 2012 at St. Vincents Infirmary Hospice Center in Little Rock. She was born July 7, 1931 in the Mt. Tabor community in Drew County.
She was the widow of Roy Milton Smith, retired from Burlington Industries in 1997 after 32 years and was a member of Second Baptist Church. She loved to quilt and going to the Senior Citizens Center daily. She was the daughter of the late James Washington Fortner and Lillie Mae Peacock Fortner and was preceded in death by two brothers, Leslie Fortner and Eugene Fortner and two sisters, Velma Roberts and Dorothy Woods.
Survivors include three children, Patricia Ann Cook and husband, Charles of Paris, AR, Stanley Milton Smith and wife, Denise of Brisbane, Australia and James Roy Smith and wife, Renee of Monticello; two sisters, Ann Williams of Lubbock, TX and Margaret Betts of Hobbs, New Mexico; six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
She was the widow of Roy Milton Smith, retired from Burlington Industries in 1997 after 32 years and was a member of Second Baptist Church. She loved to quilt and going to the Senior Citizens Center daily. She was the daughter of the late James Washington Fortner and Lillie Mae Peacock Fortner and was preceded in death by two brothers, Leslie Fortner and Eugene Fortner and two sisters, Velma Roberts and Dorothy Woods.
Survivors include three children, Patricia Ann Cook and husband, Charles of Paris, AR, Stanley Milton Smith and wife, Denise of Brisbane, Australia and James Roy Smith and wife, Renee of Monticello; two sisters, Ann Williams of Lubbock, TX and Margaret Betts of Hobbs, New Mexico; six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.