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Carroll Clinton Smith was called home to rest and be at peace eternally on May 27, 2003, at 10:55 p.m. in the V.A. Medical Center in Ohio. He was born May 30, 1937, in Monessen to the late William and Jessie Smith. He attended Charleroi Elementary and Junior High School and graduated from Monessen High School. He was a special disabled veteran of the U.S. Air Force. During his service in Nevada, he met and married his late wife, Arvesta Metcalf Smith. Moving to Washington, D.C., he worked for and retired from Computer Data Business Center as a computer operator. Carroll, later in life, met and married Barbara Russell Smith and moved to Dayton, Ohio. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his step father, Robert Madison Sr., four brothers, William, Mark and James Smith and Napolean Madison, one niece, Kathy Madison, and one nephew, Anthony Madison. He leaves to carry on his torch of life his beloved and devoted wife, one daughter, Tatia Smith, three step daughters, Anna Caston, Estelle Dockery and Destyne Ford, two step sons and daughters-in-law, Ronald and Caroletta Hamilton and Rhone and Sonyette Hamilton. Carroll also leaves to mourn two sisters and brothers-in-law, Vivian and Alzono Rodgers, and Barbara Jean and Robert Edwards, two brothers and sisters-in-law, Robert and Marie Smith, and Norman and Darla Madison, three sisters-in-law, Jessie, Sadie and Janice Smith, three brothers, Earl Madison, Charles and Robert Madison Jr., two sisters, Roberta and Pearl Smith, one brother and sister-in-law, Jessie Russell and Linda and Wesley Brown, 26 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews, great-nieces and -nephews, cousins and friends. Friends will be received Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Madison Temple Headquarters, COGIC 533 Ninth St., also known as love, faith and hope Outreach Ministry, with the Rev. Roderick U.N. Wilson Sr., pastor, officiating. Co-pastor is Priscilla Wilson. The Rev. Richard Wilson will deliver the eulogy, and interment will be in Belle Vernon Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by the WILLIAM R. TAYLOR FUNERAL HOME, Monessen (724-684-4877), Trudy Taylor-Bristol, director.

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