Jonesville Native

ROEBUCK,SC — James Earl "Skip" Smith, 60, of 830 Blufton Dr., Roebuck, S.C., died Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Regional Hospice Home, Spartanburg.

Born in Jonesville, he was a son of Roberta Smith Crawford and the late James P. Smith, and was raised by his grandmother, the late Ruby Flowers.

He was a member of Foster Chapel Baptist Church in Jonesville. James was a 1967 graduate of Sims High School, and attended a college in Virginia, New York University, and graduated from City College, NY.

Surviving are two sisters, Patricia Johnson (Benjamin) of the home; and Christine Robinson of Charlotte; one brother, James F. Smith (Gloria) of New York; a cousin, Ralph Smith, of Spartanburg, raised in the home as a brother.

Services will be Sunday, 1:30 p.m., in Foster Chapel Baptist Church with Rev. W. E. Smith officiating. Interment will follow in Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery. The body will be in the church Sunday at 1.

The Gilmore Mortuary