The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, February 12, 1996              TAG: 9602120010
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: WILMINGTON                         LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

EDITH O. SMITH

Edith O. Smith of Jasmine Cove Way, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 1996, in Davis Health Care Center.

Mrs. Smith was born in Portsmouth on Sept. 6, 1909, the daughter of the late Albert F. and Crissie C. Culpepper Ozment. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lyman A. Smith Sr. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, Portsmouth.

Surviving are her son, Lyman A. Smith Jr. and wife Margaret of Wilmington; five grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, in Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth. Sturtevant Funeral Home, Portsmouth Blvd. Chapel, is handling arrangements.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

by CNB