Services for George “G.W.” Smith Jr. of Baton Rouge were noon,Thursday, March 18, at Greenoaks Funeral Home chapel with burial inGreenoaks Memorial Park.

Mr. Smith, 79, died Monday, March 15, 2004, at Our Lady of theLake Regional Medical Center. He was born in Brookhaven to GeorgeW. and Lavada B. Smith.

He was a retired boilermaker. He was a member of Forest RoadBaptist Church and American Legion Nicholson Post 38. He served inWorld War II and was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army.

Preceding him in death were his parents, his brother Aubrey L.Smith, his sister Pauline S. Rollins, and his son-in-law Gary R.Gregory.

Survivors are his wife of 58 years Andree Amaz Smith; his sonand his wife Jayson and Judy Smith, of Pine Grove, La.; hisdaughter and her husband Marie and Danny Huggins, of Santuck, Ala.,and his daughter Peggy Gregory, of Baton Rouge; his three sisters,Sybil Smith, Ann Smith and Maxine Calcote, all of Baton Rouge; hisseven grandchildren; and his six great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Saint Jude Children’s ResearchHospital.