Pauline Smith

Pauline Spooner Smith, 85, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at her residence. The funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, October 14, 2011 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Milton Harrison officiating. Interment will follow at Cool Springs Cemetery with Stacy Roberts, Dean Roberts, Brian Donalson, David Cottles, David Grubbs, and Kent Bush serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Southwest Georgia, 1323 East Shotwell Street, Bainbridge, GA 39819. Mrs. Smith was born June 18, 1926 in Attapulgus, GA, the daughter of James Harrison Spooner and Sadie Marie Mitchell Spooner. She was a homemaker and member of West Street Baptist Church. Survivors include her son, Eugene Smith of Macon, GA; her daughters, Marie S. Donalson of Bainbridge, GA, Martha Ann Ashley and her husband, Larry, of Simpsonville, SC, and Joann S. Perry and her husband, Walter, of Vidalia, GA; her brother, Jesse Spooner of Bainbridge, GA; her sister, Mary Phillips of Hoschton, GA; her grandchildren, Brian Donalson, Stacy Roberts, Lisa Schilling, Daniel Ashley, and Dean Roberts; and her eight great-grandchildren. Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by her husband, Elton "Buddy" Smith and her granddaughter, Deana Ann Ashley.