David Paul Smith

david smith

January 24, 1940 ~ September 7, 2002


Resided in: Asheville, NC

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David Paul Smith, 62, of Asheville, died Saturday, September 7, 2002, in an Asheville hospital. Mr. Smith was born in Anson County and was a son of the late Samuel and Ruby Vernon Smith. He retired in 1995 after 31 years in the Air Force Reserves and had worked at the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department for fourteen years. He is survived by a cousin Carolyn Carter of Winston-Salem and a good friend, Vicki Melvin of Asheville. Funeral services will be at 4:00 pm Tuesday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard Baird officiating assisted by Lana Elingburg and Major Bill Stafford. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Eliada Home for Children, PO Box 16708, Asheville, NC 28816.

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  1. My thoughts and prayers are with you. I will really miss Mr. Smith. He helped me so many times when my daughter was little to try to locate and make her daddy pay his child support. I also got to know him at Ingles in South Forest Shoping Center. He was always so nice, pleasant, and helpful to me. I will miss him greatly. I did not realize he had been sick. When I needed help of any kind at the Sheriff Department, he was always who I called. My daughter also remembers him from when she was in elementary school. May God bless and keep you in every way as you deal with David’s loss. I considered him a great friend and I was glad he came into my life. I hope God will comfort you as only He can.

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  3. God Bless Dave.
    I was glad to visit you in Asheville some 18 years after we first met at Love Field, Dallas and then go through weapons training in Denver Colorado.

    I appreciated you maturity and level headed thinking. I always felt you had the intelligence and capability to handle anything as a leader. I fully understand you at now peacefully at rest, and hope you had a happy life.

    See you in heaven some day.

    God Bless you.

    Sorry you are gone and at such a young age of 62 some13 years ago and now I find out. At 74 you would be 75, but

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