Mrs. Mary Belle Keltner Smithson, 90, a resident of North Main Street in Mt. Pleasant died Tuesday, November 12, 2003 at NHC/Columbia Health Care.
Funeral services for Mrs. Smithson will be conducted, Friday November 14, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Williams Columbia Funeral Home with Reverend William Owens and grandson Jeffrey Sneed officiating. Burial will be in the Arlington Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Thursday from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
The Maury County native was the daughter of the late Tom and Emma Elizabeth Chapman Thomason. She was preceded in death by her first husband William Isaac Keltner who died May 7, 1965 and John L. Smithson who died December 22, 1998 and a son, Jerry Wayne Keltner, who died October 24, 1996. She was a homemaker and a member of the Mt Pleasant Free Will Baptist Church.
She is survived by two daughters, Martha Sue Keltner Roddy of Mt.Pleasant, TN and Linda Keltner Sneed of Nashville, TN; two sons, Charles William Barbara Keltner of Columbia TN and Larry Walton Debbie Keltner of Hohenwald; twelve grandchildren, Kimberly Keltner, Jill Keltner, Jeffrey Sneed, Todd Sneed, Tony Roddy, Marty Roddy, Timothy Keltner, J. Patrick Keltner, Melissa Keltner, Deric Keltner, Jonah Keltner and Josh Keltner; 15 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Jeffrey Sneed, Todd Sneed, Anthony Roddy, Marty Roddy, Timothy W. Keltner, J. Patrick Keltner, Deric W. Keltner, Jonah Keltner, Josh Keltner and Bobby Todd Sneed II.
Honorary pallbearers will be John L. Smithson, Jr., William Smithson, Administration, Staff, Nurses and Technicians at NHC Columbia; Deacons and members of Mt. Pleasant Free Will Baptist Church.