Bertha “Alyeen” Smith Callender went home peacefully, following a lengthy illness, on September 22, 2023
She was born in Lincoln County Mississippi on November 16, 1929, to Leon Smith and Bertha Norton Smith.
She was a loving wife, mother, and “Mawmaw” to many. She was a member of Stuart Heights Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of nearly fifty years, Robert Monroe Callender, her sisters Univa Smith, Hollice Douglas; her brothers, Clarence, Robert Edward “R.E.,” Vernon, Woodrow, Rudolph, and Elva Smith.
She is survived by her sister Pauline Burns of Bogue Chitto, MS; daughter Patricia Callender Olcsvary and her husband Duane, granddaughters Amanda Olcsvary Bentley and her husband Ray, Monica Olcsvary Davenport and her husband Jonathan; five great granddaughters Alexia and Autumn Reagan, Krysalee Olcsvary, and Scarlett and Elizabeth “Ellie” Bentley; and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral arrangements to be made shortly.
