Karen Smith

Born in Detroit, MI on January 7, 1952

Departed on September 3, 2014 and resided in Nashville, Tennessee

Karen Ann Smith died at her residence in Nashville, TN on September 3, 2014; she was 62 years old.

Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband of 32 years Mr. Julius Robert Smith, Jr. "Bob-O"; son Julius Robert Smith III (Brittany); daughter Rebecca Reid Smith; brother Larry Hanson; and niece Amie Hanson-Bilbrey.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September 6, 2:00 pm at the Harpeth Hills Funeral Home, 9090 Hwy 100, Nashville, TN 37221.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Alive Hospice in Memory of Mrs. Karen Ann Smith.

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
- Henry Van dyke