Graveside service for Marinia Faye Smith will be 10 a.m., Saturday, February 5, 2022, at Union Church Cemetery. Rev. Billy Joe Deer will officiate.

Mrs. Smith, 63, of Union Church, passed away February 2, 2022, at King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven. She was born in Natchez, MS, May 2, 1958, to John William Thorpe and Sallie Mae Thorpe. She worked in the medical field as a Licensed Practical Nurse. She was a member of Union Church Baptist Church. Mrs. Smith was a devoted servant of God and enjoyed being with her faith family. She was also a loving wife, mother, and grandmother, and truly cherished time spent with her family. She will be greatly missed by all who loved her.

She is preceded in death by her parents and her brother, John Wade Thorpe.

She is survived by her husband of 44 ½ years, Joey Craig Smith; son, Craig William Smith; daughter, Melissa Faith Sandifer and husband, Dusty Wayne; brothers, Lloyd Thorpe and Jim Thorpe; sisters, Janet Tarver, Linda Irby, and Liz Haralson; one precious grandson, Colton Wayne Sandifer; and a host of nieces and nephews and other loving family members and friends.