Retired Chief Master Sergeant Charles Edwards Smith, 74, passed away Thursday morning, April 14, 2016 at Kitty Askins Hospice Center after a long illness.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church in Goldsboro.  Interment with full military honors will follow at Eastern Carolina State Veterans Cemetery, 164 Longs Plant Farm Road.  The family will receive friends Wednesday evening, April 20, 2016 from 6 until 7:30 p.m. at Howell Funeral Home & Crematory.

Mr. Smith was born in Virginia on December 04, 1941 to the late Armistead and Mable Weakley Smith.  He was retired from the United States Air Force and a member of St. Michaels and St. Mary Catholic Church.  Mr. Smith was an outdoorsman and a avid golfer. 

He is survived by his wife, Yolanda Bacani-Smith; one daughter, Valencia Renee Carter and husband, Jason of Goldsboro and her mother, LaVera Smith of Goldsboro; four step-children; two sisters, Virgie Scott of Virginia and Frances Groves and husband, John of Virginia; one grandchild, Dustin Tyler Carter; 10 step-grandchildren; one step-great-grandchild and several more extended family.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Smith was preceded in death by two brothers Jack and Ernest Smith and a sister, Rose Wichterman.

The family is in the care of Howell Funeral Home & Crematory in Goldsboro.

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