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Bennie Smith Funeral Home
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Bennie Smith was born on July 18, 1948, on a rural farm in Faceville, Georgia, son of Earlie and Lera Smith, and the youngest of six children. He attended a four-room schoolhouse until the eighth grade and a high school with sub-standard facilities. To assist in supporting his family, he worked a full-time job his junior and senior years of high school. He was the driver for the local African American funeral home. Early in life, he knew he wanted to own a business, but it wasn't until he worked for the funeral home that he decided that he would one day own and operate a funeral home business.
Knowing that his parents could not afford his tuition to college, he joined the Armed Forces, and, after being Honorably Discharged, he matriculated at the John A. Gupton School of Mortuary Science in Nashville, Tennessee in 1969. He was a full-time student and worked full-time as well until his graduation in 1971. After graduating, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota and a year later he received his Bachelor of Science degree, which is the highest degree offered in this profession. Again, he was a full-time student working a full-time job. Earning this Bachelor of Science degree enabled him to be licensed to operate in any state without restrictions.
His first full-time postion as a Mortician was for one year at Hawkins Funeral Home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1973. In 1973, he moved to Dover, Delaware and worked for the Reese Funeral Home. While working for Reese Funeral Home, he enrolled at the University of Delaware and earned a Master's Degree in Counseling in 1978. It was in the late seventies that he decided that it was time for him to step up and seek his teenage dream of owning his own funeral home.
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