Birth date: Apr 24, 1942 Death date: Aug 17, 2005
James Smithee, 63, of Springdale, Arkansas died Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at his residents in Springdale. He was born April 24, 1942 in Springdale, Arkansas, the son of James Wilburn and Hazel McClung Smithee. He was the Vice pre Read Obituary
You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. God bless you. He was a wonderful person that I am honored to have known.
Anna
Carolyn, Rhonda, Kiran & Gracie, How my heart aches for your loss of Husband, father & papa. But Oh, how my spirit is rejoicing for my brother!!!! Imagine, right now he is looking upon the glorious face of our Savior & Creator. He has a new body, made whole and complete. How lucky he is to be safe in the arms of the one who called him by name. I pray for each of you that your pain and grief in this loss will be replaced with joy in knowing that he did what God created him for. To spread Christ's love to those who he was in contact with. I saw it in him the first moment I met him. Jesus' love and grace and mercy were such a vital part of James' life. He gave each of those Christ traits to everyone he met just as Christ gave to him. He will be missed here on earth but his legacy will live on in each of you. I love you all!
Smithee was a big part of our lives and we feel so fortunate that we had him as long as we did. He was born to a loving but poor family and everything that he accomplished in his life, he did by hard work and determination. He never forgot where he came from and people were drawn to his humor and honesty. He will be missed by so many, but all who saw how sick he was and how much pain he was in know that he is in a better place with NO MORE pain! I know that if there is a golf course in Heaven, he is on the 5th hole by now and doing great!!
I came to know James by being his Home Health Nurse but became his friend by choice. It has been a great privalege to have got to know James and his family. He gave a great testimony of his faith not by his words but by his actions, he refused to let the pain get him down and insisting to continue to do the things he loved with his family. I'll never forget him or how he sat on his couch making funny little comments even if he was in alot of pain. I always left his house with a smile on my face and saddness in my heart for what he was going through. My heart goes to Caroline, Rhonda, Gracie and Kiren I know you will feel his absense for years to come but he is in a happy place now with no pain, and Gracie I'm sure you know that your papa was so proud of everything you do and I never left there without seeing his eyes twinkle when he spoke your name. It has been my honor and pleasure to have gotten to know this family. God blessed me with the opportunity of being in James's life.
Love,
Lisa
James has been an inspiration to everyone that had the great pleasure to know him. His battle with pain was done with such grace and fearlessness. Heaven is a better place today because he is there with many of those we have loved and lost before him.
This week I had a dream that I am only now able to interpert. It was of a white bird that had died and there was crimson blood on the wings which was the only part left of the bird. My friend at work has a parrot, and I thought it had to do with her bird. She was concerned because she had recently given her bird away and had not heard from the new owner, even though she had tried to contact him. Today I realize that dream came to me as James passed from this world into the next with the covering of the shed blood of Christ and a pair of white wings. Now he can soar. Thank you God, for this revelation, and thank you family for sharing your beloved husband, father, and papa with those of us so fortunate to have know him in this life. God bless you and your memories, may your grief be brief and the peace that passes all understanding be with you now.
Your friends,
Odell & Linda
