Earnestine Smelley James Obituary

We are sad to announce that on May 7, 2021, at the age of 73, Earnestine Smelley James (Jackson, Alabama) passed away. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Earnestine Smelley James to pay them a last tribute.

She was predeceased by: her parents, Flozell Jackson and Francis Jackson; and her brother Josephus Jackson. She is survived by: her former husband William L. Smelley; her husband Clarence James; her daughter Angela Smelley Coleman; her stepdaughter Ashley Warren; her godchildren, Sheri Williams and Haywood Sean Mungin; her siblings, Dorothy Eatman (John) of Los Angeles, CA, Fannie L. Nathan (Jimmy) of Birmingham, AL, Bernice Benjamin of Los Angeles, CA, Olivia Jackson of Los Angeles, CA and Flozell Jackson (Martha); her siblings-in-law, Barbara Williams, Beulah Dickens, Nellie Hopkins of Tarboro, NC, Channie Grant (William), Julia Cargile (Royal), Daisy James of Tuscaloosa, Alabama., Willie James of Marietta, GA, James Smelley and Peter Kimbrough of Birmingham, Alabama.; her uncle Johnnie Hughes; her aunts, Mary Francis Nixon and Lillian Brooks of Cleveland, OH.; and her siblings' children, James Nathan of Maryland and Daryl Nathan of Los Angeles, CA. She is also survived by numerous relatives, friends.