Mrs. Hattie Mae Gaddy Smith

Obituary For Mrs. Hattie Mae Gaddy Smith

Heaven needed another angel and Hattie Mae Gaddy Smith was chosen to sing in the Heavenly Choir. She answered to God’s call on November 26, 2023 surrounded by family and friends.

Hattie was born April 21, 1950 to the late Elizabeth Gaddy Bennett and Adam Junior Robinson. She was educated in the Anson County School system. She was a member of the Bowman Senior High Class of 1968.

After graduation, she married her high school sweetheart, Walter Edward (Pete) Smith. In this union two children were born, Pamela and Stacey. Being a military wife, Hattie traveled to many states including Korea and Germany.

Hattie confessed her life to Christ at an early age and joined Garris Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Wadesboro, NC. There she began singing in the church choir. After relocating to Monroe, NC, she joined Elizabeth Baptist Church and continued to sing on the choir.

Hattie loved to sing and she was always the life of the party. She was the “Shirley Ceasar” of the family, a soulful songstress who loved to use her voice to inspire encourage and bring about boisterous laughter. In 2005, she recorded a CD entitled “Hattie Smith, My Testimony”.

She was preceded in death by her mother, husband and a brother.

She leaves to cherish a daughter, Dr. Pamela (Jose) Oviedo of Monroe, NC; a son, Stacey (Georgette) Smith of Texas; two grandchildren, Warren Evans and Maya Evans of Monroe, NC; two great grandchildren, Mila Amorina Mendoza and Aliya Yalani Tolentin; three brothers, David (Linda) Bennett of Matthews, NC, Aaron (Brenda) Bennett of Odenton, Maryland and Robert (Janice) Bennett of Lilesville, NC; one brother, Walter Bennett (Hattie Teal Bennett of Wadesboro, NC) preceded her in death; four sisters, Brenda (Rodney) Nivens of Kernersville, NC, Vivian Benson and Linda (Tracy) Bennett of Wadesboro, NC and Rosa Wall Little of Wadesboro, NC; sister-in-law, Joyce (Eddie Thomas) Little; aunts raised as siblings, Louise Ingram, Majorie Evans, Daisy Smith, Annie Medley and Nezzie Simon; aunt, Virginia Lilly; special cousins, Betty Ann Gaddy and Beverly Medley. A host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

The Homegoing Services will be on Saturday, December 2, 2023, 3:00pm, Smith's Memorial Chapel, 604 Salisbury Street, Wadesboro, North Carolina. Interment will be in Westview Memorial Park, Highway 74-West, Wadesboro, North Carolina.

The Smith & Gaddy-Bennett Family will greet family and friends on Saturday, December 2, 2023 from 2:30-3:00pm at Smith's Memorial Chapel and at all other times at the family residence.

The public viewing will be on Friday, December 1, 2023 from 3:30-5:30pm at Smith's Funeral Home.

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