Alex Smith

Funeral services for Mr. Alex Troy Smith, 72 of Baxter will be held Tuesday January 24 at 1 p.m. in the Baxter Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Saylors Cemetery in White County. Rev. Randy Bilbrey and Rev. Terry Bryant will officiate. Mr. Smith died Saturday morning January 21, 2012 in Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. He was born January March 17, 1939 in Buffalo Valley, Tennessee to the late Wilburn and Betty Jane Montgomery Smith. He was a member of Buckner Freewill Baptist Church and a retired carpenter. Survivors include his wife, Robbie Sue Johnson Smith (whom he married July 24, 2006 in Putnam County); son and daughter-in-law, Alex and Trisha Smith JR of Hendersonville, TN; two daughters and a son-in-law, , Jenny Smith, Janie & Grady Hough all of Murfreesboro; step-daughter, Treva Smith of CA; three step-sons, William Rittenberry of Baxter, Ferrell Gateley and Ricky Gateley both of FL; five grandchildren, two great grandchildren; and two sisters, Hazel Flatt and Ruth Halpin both of Cookeville. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. His family will receive friends Monday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Tuesday from 11 a.m. until service time at the Baxter Chapel.