Funeral services for Mr. Eddie D. Smith will be conducted at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at Hepzibah Baptist Church, with the Reverend Matt Robinson officiating. Interment will follow in the Hepzibah Cemetery. Mr. Smith, age 56, entered into the eternal rest of his Lord on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. Saulters Moore Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, April 21, beginning at 10:00 am until the hour of service at 12:00 pm at Hepzibah Baptist Church.

Mr. Smith will be carried to his final resting place by those honored to serve as pallbearers.  They include Levi Smith, Karson Shepherd, Jonathan Smith, Jonathan Shumaker, Jacob Henderson, Jimmy Speights, Jadon Speights,and Dalton Abshire.  Serving as honorary pallbearer will be Asher Shumaker.

Determined, Perseverance, Fixer, Provider, Protector, Comical, Loyal are just a few words that would describe Eddie. He worked in construction and later as a millwright with Georgia Pacific, Monticello, MS until his motorcycle accident in 2006. Eddie did not let that accident stop him. He went above and beyond what the doctors told him he would be able to do. He enjoyed working his cattle, gardening, cutting grass, bushhogging, and fixing anything and everything anyone mentioned to him, or asked him how they could fix. If they turned their back long enough, he had it fixed for them.

He was loved fiercely and faithfully by his wife of 29 years, Sherry Speights Smith who survives him and for whom he was so thankful. She stood for him at times when he could not stand on his own.

He has now been reunited with his son Eddie Jake Smith, his father Johnny Abe Smith, father-in-law Jerry Lynn Speights, Grandparents Elbridge and Georgia Mae Smith, RC and Ellawee Ballard Rutherford and JH Rutherford.

Along with Sherry, he is also survived by his daughter Bailey Shumaker (Jonathan) and his son Levi Smith. His precious grandchildren Layla Jake, Asher, Dilynn and Annaston Shumaker, his mother Betty Ballard Smith, brother Robbie Smith, sister Suzette Smith and sister-in-law Chantay Smith. His mother-in-law Rebecca Rogers Speights his brother-in-law Jimmy Speights (Hope) and his sister-in-law Sandy Abshire (Johnnie). He is loved and looked up to by his nephews Jonathan Rome Smith (Ashley), Jadon Speights, Dalton Abshire, His nieces Adrienne Smith, Marissa Davis (Ervin), Jessie Henderson (Jacob), Rebecca (Becca) Speights, Erin Reynolds and Brittney Smith. He has numerous great nieces and nephews who love Uncle Eddie. He is looked for every day by his fur babies Buddy Roe, Buddy Roe JR (BJ), Duke, Patches and his big baby bull Ralph.

If you could count Eddie as family or a friend, you were very blessed.

Online condolences and a guest registry are available at www.saultersmoorefuneralhome.com