Mrs. Mildred Elizabeth ??Lib? Smith, age 80, of Lumberton passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. She was born in Robeson County on May 10, 1931 to the late Dewitt Smith and Neva Tyner Smith.

She graduated from Smith??s High School and worked for Southern Bell Telephone Company for 32 years: 20 years as an operator and ten years as a telephone frame man. She was the first female frame man in the nation. She was an avid bowler and bowled in many traveling leagues. She was a member of Raft Swamp Baptist Church and Southern Bell Pioneer. Mrs. Smith was a major caretaker of her mother and father and all her siblings for most of her life. She was a leader, loving sister, wife, mother and grandmother.

Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband, Lenwood Smith of the home; two sons, Daniel Wayne Smith and Rickie Len Smith, both of Lumberton; one daughter, Vickie Smith Haddock of Pinehurst; one adopted son, Tracy Smith of Lumberton; one brother, Dewitt Smith, Jr. of Texas; two sisters, Mary Alice Smith and Merline Lewis, both of Lumberton; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

A time of visitation will be held on Tuesday evening, September 27, 2011 from 7:00-9:00PM at Floyd Mortuary & Crematory, Inc., 809 East 5th Street, Lumberton.

A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 2:00PM at Raft Swamp Baptist Church in Lumberton with Rev. David Rutland and Minister David Cuthbertson of Martinsville, VA officiating. Burial will follow at Raft Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery.