Jennings Smith

Celebration of life services for Jennings L. “Mr. Red Fox” Smith, 53, will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, October 22, 2006 at the Hartsville High School Gymnasium. The Revs. Steve Winburn, B. J. Smith and Hazel Mixon will officiate. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Burial will be at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, October 23, 2006 in the New Market United Methodist Church Cemetery directed by Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home. To honor Jennings it is recommended that those attending the service dress in their school colors. Memorials may be made to the Jennings Smith Wall of Fame, c/o Hartsville High School, 701 Lewellyn Avenue, Hartsville, SC 29550 or to Helping Hands Hospice, 202 S. 2nd St., Hartsville, SC 29550. Mr. Smith died Friday, October 20, 2006. Born in Darlington Co., SC, he was a son of the late John Wesley and Beler Mae Wallace Smith. He graduated from Hartsville High School in 1971, graduating in the top ten percent of his class. He was a member of the National Honor Society, was an honorary member of the Red Fox Club and a member of P.A.L.S.(People Always Lending Support) for 14 years, serving as their assistant director for the past 3 years. He played church basketball and church softball. He coached t-ball, basketball, and worked with the American Legion Baseball program for 34 years. He was a statistician for Hartsville High School Athletics for 30 years and Hartsville Middle School Athletics for 27 years. He was the sports writer for Darco News and Buyers Guide, the High School Sports Report, and the sports show on WSDC radio. He was awarded several accolades including: the Jaycees’ “Hartsville’s Most Outstanding Young American” in 1985, the “High School Sports Report Fan of the Year” in 1988, and Relay for Life’s “Sexiest Legs in Darlington County” for the past two years. He tutored many students, touched the lives of over 18,000 Athletes, attended over 8,000 ballgames. He will be missed by all. Surviving are his brothers and sister-in-laws, James and Betty Smith of Lamar, SC, John Henry and Hattie Smith of McBee, SC, Charles and LaVonde Smith of Murrells Inlet, SC; sistes and brothers-in-law, Margaret Morrell, Jeanette and Ray Winburn, Patricia and Roy Flowers all of Hartsville, SC; adopted brothers and sister-in-law, Thomas and April Sellers, Jack O’neal; godchild, Jennings Rufznak; numerous nieces and nephews; special friend, Judy “Mama Judy” Lyles.

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Jennings Smith

May 29, 1953 - October 20, 2006