The advocate for premature babies and wife of NBA star J.R. Smith, shares her fight for Black maternal health in a new inspiring memoir, “Mama Bear.” Shirley Smith was told to prepare for a funeral.

Shirley Joan Smith was reunited with her husband Robert Smith August 10, 2025, and welcomed by her parents John and Dorothy Holland, her brother Jack, and son Jeffrey Robert. Her family takes solace ...

Jul. 5—Shirley Smith Shirley Marie Smith passed away peacefully on May 27, 2025. Shirley was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma, on July 29, 1935, to Clarence and Tiny Bentley. She moved to New Mexico with ...

FOLEY, Ala. (WKRG) — Investigators said the granddaughter of Shirley Smith, 69, was so concerned after not being able to get in touch with her grandmother that she went to the Town and Country Motel, ...

CLEVELAND — Five years ago, Shirley and JR Smith felt helpless as their own daughter Dakota was born at 22 weeks. "I didn't even know what a premature baby was until I had Dakota. And that was only 5 ...

Shirley Smith once told her children that she would have loved to work in an airport. They were at Dulles International Airport, where she was dropping off one of her children for some misadventure ...

People who regarded Shirley Smith as the junior partner in her marriage to Shelley Smith were seriously misreading the situation. Shelley Smith, the founder of the West Texas Rehabilitation Center, ...

Delmar - Shirley Smith Ryall, 75, of Delmar passed away on Monday, September 27, 2021, at her home in Delmar surrounded by her loving family. She was born on July 15, 1946, in Salisbury, a daughter of ...

Shirley Smith was told to prepare for a funeral. It was New Year’s Eve four years ago when she arrived at the hospital after experiencing pain at 21 weeks pregnant. While the rest of the world toasted ...

Do you hear the rejoicing in heaven? Shirley Smith has gone home to live for eternity with her Lord Jesus and all her loved ones who have died in Christ before her! Shirley died Thursday, October 12 ...

Brilliant, beautiful, and feisty, Shirley R. Smith, 97, died at home on October 18, 2020. She is now reunited with her late husband Jerome (Jerry) Smith (1917-1968), parents Anna and Max Zinn, brother ...

Shirley A. Smith, age 66, of Mertztown, passed away on Friday morning, November 24, 2017, in her residence surrounded by her family. She was the wife Russell P. Smith. Born in Allentown on December 14 ...