Graveside services will be at 11:00 am on Monday, August 12, 2024 at Pleasant View Cemetery, Slayden, TN. Pastor Wes Sesler will officiate. Later, in the Fall, there will be a memorial service at Victory Baptist Church in Cocoa, FL, which will also be available to view through Facebook. In lieu of flowers, people can donate in her memory to Victory Baptist Church, 242 Capron Road, Cocoa, FL 32927 (321-632-6148), https://www.victorybaptistpsj.com.
Kathryn Juanita (“Nita”) Proctor Smith of Cocoa, Florida, passed away quietly in her sleep on August 6, 2024, at the age of 93. Nita was born on August 11, 1930, to Mary Easter Cunningham Proctor and Thurman Otis Proctor. Nita had four older half-siblings and a younger brother.
In 1947 Nita met and married Robert “Bob” Clifton Smith, a WWII veteran and ex-POW. They had three children, a daughter and a son born in Tennessee, and a second son born years later while they were living in Miami. In 1972, with their oldest children gone, they moved to the Atlanta area. In 1985, after Bob’s retirement from Eastern Airlines, they moved to the Port St. John section of Cocoa, Florida.
Nita was independent, energetic, highly organized and very efficient. She used her skills effectively as a homemaker and home finance manager, as a teacher’s aide in Georgia, and as a volunteer officer in ex-POW organizations. She and Bob traveled to ex-POW conventions across the country, and to visit family and friends. Nita loved to sew and cook. Nita was a long-time dedicated member of Victory Baptist Church. Nita was a wonderfully supportive mother, sister, and friend, and she will be sorely missed.
Nita is survived by her daughter, Gale Wright; son, Patrick Smith; son Stanton Smith; grandchildren, Benjamin Adams, Jonathan Adams, Robert Smith, and Laura Lewis; and great grandchildren, Ethan Adams, and Jordan Adams. She is preceded in death by her husband Bob, and her siblings, Grady Proctor, Brady Proctor, Lotti “Bea” Minton, Bethel Pitts, and Paul Proctor.