Elizabeth "Lib" Smith

Hilda Elizabeth “Lib” Atkins Smith, 96, of Mocksville, NC and formerly of Lexington, NC passed away peacefully on Friday, October 23, 2020 at Davie Nursing and Rehabilitation. A graveside service will be Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM at Forest Hill Memorial Park conducted by the Rev. Wayne Sechrest. No formal visitation is planned. Mrs. Smith was born February 3, 1924 in London, England to the late Frederick John and Annie Norman Atkins. She served in the Women’s Land Army during WWII. She was a homemaker and loving mother and member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Lexington. She was predeceased by both parents, her husband of 57 years, Henry Bernis Smith, a soldier in the US Army she met while he was stationed in Great Britain prior to the invasion of Normandy in WWII, a brother Frederick Henry Atkins, KIA in Belgium just weeks before the end of WWII, two daughters Tina Lynn Odonoghue and Jean Kyles (Max), and grandson, Kenneth James Kyles. She is survived by four children, Anne Stapleton (Sid), Danny Patrick Smith (Vickie), Beth Walters (Wayne), and Henry Bernis Smith, II (Chipper), and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice.