It is with heartfelt sadness that we announce the homegoing of our beloved mother and grandmother, Inell Reatha Carter Smith, who went home to be with her Heavenly Father, on June 3, 2025, at the age of 93. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wallace Smith; and daughter, Blanche S. Johnson.

She was born on February 12,1932, in Hanover County, VA, to Thomas Emanuel and Inell Dorothy Carter; the first of 15 children.

She is survived by three daughters, Brenda Haymes, Mary Smith Young (Linwood), and Glorice Bervine; one son, Bryan L. Smith; five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, five sisters, two brothers, two sisters-in-law, one brother-in- law, and a host of other family members and friends.

Her Celebration of Life will be held at Walter J. Manning Funeral Home, 700 N. 25th St., on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 2:00pm. Interment will take place at Forest Lawn Cemetery, 4000 Pilots Lane, on Monday, June 16, 2025, at 11:00 AM.

Funeral services can be viewed online by selecting the "View Funeral Webcast" link below on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

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