{"id":14363,"date":"2025-12-31T06:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=14363"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:35:56","slug":"smith-jean-hickman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/smith-jean-hickman\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Jean Hickman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary\">\n<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary__text\">\n<div class=\"obituary edit-container\">\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jean Hickman Smith was born on May 10, 1929, in McKenzie, Tennessee, to the late Neal and Ever Nash. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Valentine Smith III, and her sons, Raymond Neely and Gary Neely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jean is survived by her daughter, Vivan Roberts, and her son, Charles Neely; her stepchildren, Cathy, Betsy, Valory, and Kimberly; ten grandchildren; and many special nieces and nephews who cherished her dearly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jean spent her working life in banking, where she served faithfully as a teller. She was known for her dedication, kindness, and strong work ethic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The family would like to extend special thanks to her devoted caregivers: Jenny Delk, Debbie Dyer, Rita Stanley, Linda Gilbert, Carol Doyle, and Hanna Ibrahim, whose compassion and care meant so much to Jean and her family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation with the family will be 1 Jan 2026 from 5:00 &#8211; 7:00 PM at McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Hickman County.\u00a0 A Graveside Service will be held on Friday, January 2, at 11:00 a.m. at Williamson Memorial Gardens in Franklin, Tennessee. Her grandson, Rodney Patterson, will be speaking at the service.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Hickman Smith was born on May 10, 1929, in McKenzie, Tennessee, to the late Neal and Ever Nash. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Valentine Smith III, and her sons, Raymond Neely and Gary Neely. Jean is survived by her daughter, Vivan Roberts, and her son, Charles Neely; her stepchildren, Cathy, Betsy, Valory, and Kimberly; ten&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/smith-jean-hickman\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2509,138,951,793,7301,841,1225,612,561,343,2097],"class_list":["post-14363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-delk","tag-doyle","tag-dyer","tag-gilbert","tag-ibrahim","tag-nash","tag-neely","tag-patterson","tag-roberts","tag-smith","tag-stanley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}