Funeral services were held Monday
Morning in the chapel of Higgins
Funeral Home for Byron Lambert
(Crook) Smith of Fayetteville, who
died Saturday ( March 3, 1990) in
Lincoln Care Center following a long
illness. He was 90.
Eugene Peden officiated. Burial
followed in Rose Hill Cemetery.
A native of Lincoln County, he was
the son of the late A. F. (Buddy)
Smith and Ruthie P. Smith and was
the husband of the late Marion
Cooper Ashby Smith, who died in
1969.
He was a graduate of Mercer
University, earning four letters
each in football, basketball and
baseball and one letter in track.
He was named to All-Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Teams in football, basketball and
baseball.
After a short career as a player
and umpire in professional base-
ball, he began a two-decade career
as coach at Georgia Teachers College
in Statesboro, initiated the athletic
Program at Georgia Southern
University and served as coach for
14 years.
He served as superintendent of
Schools at Statesboro for two
years and as vocational rehabilitation
counselor for the Savannah Dept.
of Education until his retirement
in 1967.
While coaching football at Georgia
Southern University, his team played
the first game ever played in the
Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla.
Smith was inducted into the Georgia
Athletic Hall of Fame on Feb. 17,
1979 and was ordained as a minister/
chaplain at the Memorial Hospital in
Savannah.
Survivors include four daughters,
Suzanne Geier of Melbourne, Fla.
Marion Ashby Johnson of Raleigh,
N. C., Seaborn Buchanan of Macon,
Ga., and Rosemary Wallace Smith of
New York City, N. Y. and nine grand-
children.
Morning in the chapel of Higgins
Funeral Home for Byron Lambert
(Crook) Smith of Fayetteville, who
died Saturday ( March 3, 1990) in
Lincoln Care Center following a long
illness. He was 90.
Eugene Peden officiated. Burial
followed in Rose Hill Cemetery.
A native of Lincoln County, he was
the son of the late A. F. (Buddy)
Smith and Ruthie P. Smith and was
the husband of the late Marion
Cooper Ashby Smith, who died in
1969.
He was a graduate of Mercer
University, earning four letters
each in football, basketball and
baseball and one letter in track.
He was named to All-Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Teams in football, basketball and
baseball.
After a short career as a player
and umpire in professional base-
ball, he began a two-decade career
as coach at Georgia Teachers College
in Statesboro, initiated the athletic
Program at Georgia Southern
University and served as coach for
14 years.
He served as superintendent of
Schools at Statesboro for two
years and as vocational rehabilitation
counselor for the Savannah Dept.
of Education until his retirement
in 1967.
While coaching football at Georgia
Southern University, his team played
the first game ever played in the
Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla.
Smith was inducted into the Georgia
Athletic Hall of Fame on Feb. 17,
1979 and was ordained as a minister/
chaplain at the Memorial Hospital in
Savannah.
Survivors include four daughters,
Suzanne Geier of Melbourne, Fla.
Marion Ashby Johnson of Raleigh,
N. C., Seaborn Buchanan of Macon,
Ga., and Rosemary Wallace Smith of
New York City, N. Y. and nine grand-
children.
Funeral services were held Monday
Morning in the chapel of Higgins
Funeral Home for Byron Lambert
(Crook) Smith of Fayetteville, who
died Saturday ( March 3, 1990) in
Lincoln Care Center following a long
illness. He was 90.
Eugene Peden officiated. Burial
followed in Rose Hill Cemetery.
A native of Lincoln County, he was
the son of the late A. F. (Buddy)
Smith and Ruthie P. Smith and was
the husband of the late Marion
Cooper Ashby Smith, who died in
1969.
He was a graduate of Mercer
University, earning four letters
each in football, basketball and
baseball and one letter in track.
He was named to All-Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Teams in football, basketball and
baseball.
After a short career as a player
and umpire in professional base-
ball, he began a two-decade career
as coach at Georgia Teachers College
in Statesboro, initiated the athletic
Program at Georgia Southern
University and served as coach for
14 years.
He served as superintendent of
Schools at Statesboro for two
years and as vocational rehabilitation
counselor for the Savannah Dept.
of Education until his retirement
in 1967.
While coaching football at Georgia
Southern University, his team played
the first game ever played in the
Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla.
Smith was inducted into the Georgia
Athletic Hall of Fame on Feb. 17,
1979 and was ordained as a minister/
chaplain at the Memorial Hospital in
Savannah.
Survivors include four daughters,
Suzanne Geier of Melbourne, Fla.
Marion Ashby Johnson of Raleigh,
N. C., Seaborn Buchanan of Macon,
Ga., and Rosemary Wallace Smith of
New York City, N. Y. and nine grand-
children.
Morning in the chapel of Higgins
Funeral Home for Byron Lambert
(Crook) Smith of Fayetteville, who
died Saturday ( March 3, 1990) in
Lincoln Care Center following a long
illness. He was 90.
Eugene Peden officiated. Burial
followed in Rose Hill Cemetery.
A native of Lincoln County, he was
the son of the late A. F. (Buddy)
Smith and Ruthie P. Smith and was
the husband of the late Marion
Cooper Ashby Smith, who died in
1969.
He was a graduate of Mercer
University, earning four letters
each in football, basketball and
baseball and one letter in track.
He was named to All-Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Teams in football, basketball and
baseball.
After a short career as a player
and umpire in professional base-
ball, he began a two-decade career
as coach at Georgia Teachers College
in Statesboro, initiated the athletic
Program at Georgia Southern
University and served as coach for
14 years.
He served as superintendent of
Schools at Statesboro for two
years and as vocational rehabilitation
counselor for the Savannah Dept.
of Education until his retirement
in 1967.
While coaching football at Georgia
Southern University, his team played
the first game ever played in the
Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla.
Smith was inducted into the Georgia
Athletic Hall of Fame on Feb. 17,
1979 and was ordained as a minister/
chaplain at the Memorial Hospital in
Savannah.
Survivors include four daughters,
Suzanne Geier of Melbourne, Fla.
Marion Ashby Johnson of Raleigh,
N. C., Seaborn Buchanan of Macon,
Ga., and Rosemary Wallace Smith of
New York City, N. Y. and nine grand-
children.
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