Doris Bell Smiley
April 16, 1924 – June 28, 2017
Doris Bell Smiley, 93, passed away Wednesday. She was a loving person. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband James Robert Smiley after 61 years of marriage.
Her funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Joyner’s Funeral Home, Wilson. Interment will follow in Maplewood Cemetery. The Rev. Justin Deeter will officiate.
The family will receive friends 1 – 1:45 p.m. prior to service.
She is survived by three children, daughter, Janet Rae Hawley and husband Cecil of Bailey; sons, James Robert Smiley, Jr. and wife, Patricia of Wilson and Richard Lee Smiley and wife, Ann of Apex; grandchildren, Amy Thompson and husband, Charles of Sherwood, Arkansas and Richard Smiley of Apex; great-grandchildren Matthew and Lily Jane of Sherwood, Arkansas; several nieces and nephews.
Flowers are welcome but donations may be made to Forest Hills Baptist Church Building Fund, 1407 Forest Hills Road, Wilson, NC 27896.
Condolences may be directed to Joyner’s Funeral Home at www.joyners.net.