Visitation will be on Wednesday, August 10 from 5 PM till 8 PM and will resume on Thursday from 11 AM till time of service at 1 PM, all at Riverwood. Funeral services will be 1 PM from Riverwood with Rev. Tom Higginbotham officiating. Interment will follow at New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, McCall Creek, MS.
Judy Carol Cupit Smith, 71, of Denham Springs, passed away at Baton Rouge General-Bluebonnet Hospital in Baton Rouge on Saturday, August 6, 2022. She was born on May 28, 1951, in Franklin County, MS to the late Thomas Eli Cupit and Ammie Burris Cupit.
Judy was a faith and long-time member of Don Avenue Baptist Church in Denham Springs. She loved doing for others, baking cakes, spending time on the phone talking to friends and family, reading obits from the Denham Springs area and the Franklin County, MS area, but mostly just loving on her two grandchildren.
Judy was also a transport driver for Lake Sherwood Village Retirement Community.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Clayton Cupit, sisters, Claudell Jones, Doris Dillon, and an infant sister.
She is survived by her children, Greg Smith and wife Kristy, and Stephanie Smith, grandchildren, Jack Smith, and Avery Watts, 2 Brothers Tommy Cupit and wife Sharon, W L Cupit and wife Donna, Sister Nina Dale Golman and husband Kenny Bob and sister-in-law Shirley Cupit and brother-in-law Harold Dillion.
Pallbearers will be Kenny Bob Golman, David Golman, Jason Golman, John Jones and Bruce Lindley. Honorary Pallbearers will be Jack Smith and Gary Shaffer.
The family would like to extend a special thanks to the Staff at Baton Rouge General, MD Anderson, and Mary Bird Perkins.
In Memory of Judy donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or Lymphoma Myeloma Society.