Bettie Locke Smith Obituary
With profound sadness, we say goodbye to Bettie Locke Smith (Greenville, South Carolina), whose vibrant spirit touched the lives of many. Bettie left this world on December 22, 2025 at the age of 78, leaving a void in the lives of so many people. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family.
As we bid Bettie farewell, let us not mourn the absence of her physical form, but rather celebrate the essence of her spirit that lingers in the spaces between moments. For Bettie is not truly gone, but merely transformed, her energy intertwined with the fabric of the universe itself, forever dancing among the stars.
She was predeceased by: her parents, Coker Locke and Ellen Thompson; and her husband James D. Smith. She is survived by: her children, Kevin T. Smith and Tangenieka B. Smith; and her sisters, Bobbie Thompson, Genevie Redding, Teresa Locke, Josephine Locke, Willa E. Collins and Deborah Miller.
