CONTINUED ~ KENNETH
SMITH: A Water Service Legend |
| Born in Jackson, Kenneth graduated from
Jackson High. He and Mary Kay have one son, Ken. Both Mary Kay and Kenneth were students
at West Tennessee Business College when they met. "He was trying to cut through the West Tennessee Business College parking lot and I told him to slow down," Mary Kay says. "He backed up and asked me what I had said. From day one, he never heard what I said." They were married in 1967. "He was the only love I ever had," she says. Mary Kay is very appreciative of the response from JEA employees after Kenneth's death and the employees that led the funeral procession. On December 21, the Board of Directors officially retired truck number 131 and gave a plaque to the family. It says in part: "The Board of Directors of Jackson Energy Authority wish to recognize the dedicated and faithful service of Kenneth Smith. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Directors of Jackson Energy Authority, that Jackson Energy Authority vehicle number designation 131 will now and hence forth be retired from active service in memory and honor of Kenneth Smith and in recognition of his 39 years of dedicated service to the Jackson Energy Authority and the citizens of Jackson, Tennessee." Reprinted from the The Jackson Tennessee Energy Authority Newsletter, "The Dispatch. " January 2007 Edition |
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Kenneth and Mary Kay Smith
were Civil War buffs. They attended and volunteered at Civil War re-enactment's at Britton
Lane and Parker's Crossroads. A member of the John B. Ingram camp of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, he helped to organize the Riverside Cemetery walks and to get a flag
at the grave of the Unknown Soldier at Shiloh. |
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KENNY WAS THE
HUSBAND OF MARY KAY DANCY SMITH,
ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF THE DANCYVILLE WEB
SITE. KENNY WAS
VERY HELPFUL WITH THE WEB SITE. TWO MAJOR
UNDERTAKINGS WERE
HELPING MARY KAY TO READ AND INDEX THE
DANCYVILLE UNITED
METHODIST CEMETERY AND TO PROVIDE FENCING TO
PROTECT THE
ISSAC DANCY FAMILY CEMETERY IN DANCYVILLE.
