Mary Smith

CROWLEY –Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Monday, July 27, 2009 at the First United Pentecostal Church for Mary June Guidry Smith, 84, who died at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, July 25, 2009 at Southwind Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Crowley, LA.

Rev. Lenford Whitaker will conduct the funeral services and the committal service at the Hanks Cemetery. Visitation will be observed Sunday at the First United Pentecostal Church from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. and Monday from 10 a.m. until service time.

Mrs. Smith was born June 20, 1925 in Daisetta, Texas to the late Henry William and Beulah Vail Guidry. She was a wonderful mother and grandmother who loved her children and grandchildren. She loved to cook and bake, but her passion was sewing. She will be greatly missed.

She is survived by three daughters, Shirey Weir, Carolyn S. Richard and her husband Otis “Big O”, and Suzy McCracken and her husband James all of Crowley; two sons, Preston “Rusty” Smith and his wife Joan and Jon Martin Smith and his wife Laurie all of Crowley; 11 grandchildren, Todd Pousson, Kelly Monceaux, Joey Richard, Nichole Smith, Courtney Benoit, Tyler Smith, Russell Scott Smith, Jared Stephen Smith, Marc Nicholas Smith, Burt Shannon Smith and Byron Michael Smith; five great-grandchildren, Todd Pousson II, David Pousson, Annaclair Smith, Kenidie Smith, Addison Benoit; eight sisters, Clara Guidry of Eunice, LA, Evelyn Swanson of Houston, TX, Dorothy Medwedeff, Shirley Medwedeff, Marlene Menard, Ann Spallino, Brenda Bourque and Jeanette Habetz.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 53 years Preston Henry Smith, a grandson Karson “Beaver” Pousson and a brother, George Ray Guidry.

Her grandsons and great-grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home, Inc.