Kennedy Faye Smith of McKenzie passed away Friday, February 21, 2025. She was 13.

Kennedy was an honor student and cheerleader at McKenzie School. Kennedy touched the lives of many in her community and school. All of those who knew her will always remember her kindness.

For Kennedy, “It is only the beginning of the real story. Life in this world is only the cover and title page: now she is beginning Chapter One of the great story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before”- C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Memorial services for Kennedy will be held 2:00 pm., Sunday March 2, 2025 at Brushy Creek Baptist Church in Greenville. Bro. Randy Harvill will be officiating. Cope-Keahey directing.

Survivors include, parents, Justin and Taylor Smith; brother, Owen Smith; grandparents, Martha O. (Eddie) Nall, Ken and Rhonda Huff; great grandfather, Harold W. Huff Sr.; aunts and uncles, Susan and Bryan Kahler, Payton Davis, Raegan and Drew Dees, Nicholas E. Huff, Scott Smith, Jeremy and Jessie Booker, Callahan Andy and Anna Nall and Ashley Bush; cousins, Jordan Smith, Morgan (Scotty) Smith, Kiele Smith, Josh Kahler, TK Daughtry, Scarlett Smith, Lincoln Smith, Kinley Smith, Jace Booker, Dawson Booker, Aria Bush, Ryker Lee Bush, Brady Nall, Grayson Nall and Collin Nall, Zander Dees and Ella Rae Dees, God parents, Patrick and Jenny Shannon and their children, Tripp, Trent and Turner.

Kennedy was preceded in death by her grandfather, Randy W. Smith.