Funeral services for Montese P. Smith will be on Thursday, August 11, 2016, at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) in Brookhaven, MS at 2:00 PM, with burial to follow in the New Hope Church of Christ Cemetery in Brookhaven, MS. Bro. Joel Smith will be officiating the services, with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive), Brookhaven, MS on Thursday, August 11, 2016, from 11:00 AM until the time of the service at 2:00 PM.

Mrs. Montese P. Smith, 84, passed from this life on Tuesday, August 9, 2016, at Silver Cross Nursing Home. She was born on May 15, 1932, in Lincoln County, MS, to Virgil Lamar Smith and Lura Bell Smith Smith. Mrs. Smith worked at King's Daughters Medical Center for 23 1/2 years. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and wife. She was a homemaker and was of the Church of Christ faith.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband Billy Joe Smith; sister Eleanor Smith.

Survivors are her daughters, Cathie Smith, Karen Porter and husband Gary, Melissa Rushing and husband Edward, all of Brookhaven, MS; grandchildren, Shannon Smith, Leigh Smith, Joseph Porter, Dustin Porter, Jessica Dykes, Ashley Rushing, Jamie Rushing and Anna Grace Rushing; 14 great grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren; brother Aubrey Lamar Smith and wife Else; sister Charlotte Smith, both of TX; and a host of nieces and nephews and family and friends.

The family would like to give a special thanks to the staff and nurses at Silver Cross Nursing Home and Hospice Compassus.