Creola "Cre" Smith, 82, passed on June 12, 2021. She was born to Lovie Mae Johnson in Mobile, Alabama on September 28, 1938.

Creola graduated from Mobile County Training School

She married James Smith in 1960 and spent 30 plus years of marriage in Virginia before settling down in Maryland.

Creola worked as a Beautician and was passionate about affecting the most positive change in people.

She is preceded in death by her mother Lovie Johnson, husband James Smith, brother Leroy Pruitt, sister Doris Smith, and her son Terry Smith.

She leaves her son Sean Smith, sisters Allie Smith and Virginia Goodman, brothers Johnnie B Pruitt (Alice) and Rex Pugh (Brenda) and a large extended family of cousins, nieces, and nephew's.