Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, February 5, 1991 TAG: 9102040319
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
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Jack Carroll Smith, son of Dora Conner Smith of Atlanta, Ga. and the late Elmo Still Smith, passed away February 4, 1991. He was born in Meridian Miss. and was a graduate of the University of Georgia. From 1948 to 1960, he was Staff Supervisor, Personnel, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and from 1960 to 1988 was Executive Vice President of the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce. He was Chairman of Virginia 2000 Tourism Committee; member of Governor's Tourism and Travel Service Advisory Board; president of Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc.; member of the Board of Blue Ridge Zoological Society of Virginia; and a member of the Mayor's Task Force, Project Self Sufficiency; consultant for: Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce, Roanoke Valley Development Corporation, Great Roanoke Valley Development Foundation, Virginia Division of Tourism and Jack Smith Agency. He was secretary of Greater Roanoke Valley Development Foundation; chairman of Industrial Development Authority of the City of Roanoke and member of the Board and past Executive Director of the Miss Virginia Pageant, Inc; member of Roanoke Symphony Board and Valley Beautiful Board. He was past president: Virginia Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, National Association of Miss America State Pageants, Roanoke Booster Club, and Virginia Travel Council. He was past advisor of Junior League of Roanoke Valley; former chairman: Governor's Tourism and Travel Services Advisory Board and City of Roanoke Airport Advisory Commission; former Vice Chairman of Advisory Council, Virginia Employment Commission; past member: World Trade Commerce Committee; State Chamber Industrial Development, Travel Development and Legislative Affairs Committees, the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission and member of its Executive Committee, Newcomen Society, former Industrial Production Commissioner, Emergency Industrial Production Resource Agency. He was former `'Boss of the Year", Roanoke Chapter, National Secretaries Association. He was listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Personalities of the South, Two Thousand Men of Achievement, Dictionary of International Biography and Community Leaders of America, Who's Who in Virginia, Names of Distinction and Community Leaders in Virginia. He as a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, Hunting Hills Country Club, The Jefferson Club, Pi Alpha Fraternity. Mr. Smith was Virginia/North Carolina Chairman of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Mr. Smith received an Honorable Mention in the 1990 Virginia Take Pride In America Program. Recently, in recognition of Mr. Smith's leadership and his active involvement in the development and sale of the Industrial Park at Bonsack, by joint resolution of Botetourt and Roanoke Countries, the Industrial Park will be named the Jack C. Smith Industrial Park. He is survived by his wife, Melissa Moultrie Smith; two daughters and sons-in-law, Preston Hudgins and Carroll Smith Cottrell; Thomas Swepston and Claire Smith Cottrell, Richmond; one son and daughter-in-law, Jack Carroll Smith, Jr. and Elizabeth Robinson Smith, Roanoke; three grandchildren, Preston Hudgins and Elizabeth Selden Cottrell and Ida Moultrie Cottrell, Richmond; one sister and brother-in-law, James Conrad and Anita Smith Womack, Decatur, Ga.; several nieces and nephews; and great-nieces and nephews, Decatur, Ga. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Boys Home in Covington, Va. Arrangements are being handled by Oakey's. A memorial service will be conducted at St. John's Episcopal Church, 2:00 p.m. Wednesday.
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