Thomas K. Smith ’55

Born April 1, 1933, at Suomi Crossing in Dodge County, Ga., Tom Smith, an attorney, churchman, and businessman, died Jan. 29, 2011, in Atlanta.  

The son of Thomas Jefferson Smith Jr. and Lucile Kinnebrew Smith, Tom was the brother of the late Thomas Jefferson Smith III, executive officer on the Navy destroyer   U.S.S. Robert L. Wilson.

Coming from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, where he was salutatorian, Tom graduated from Princeton with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School. A member of Cottage Club, Glee Club, and Navy ROTC, Tom roomed his senior year with David Hawley and Harold Bott.  

A leader in McRae and Telfair County, Ga., legal, religious, civic, and business affairs, Tom graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1968. He practiced with Jones, Cork, Miller & Benton in Macon, Ga., moved his practice to McRae, and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.  

Tom served as attorney and director of the Merchants & Citizens Bank in McRae, and was active in forestry and the McRae United Methodist Church, where he was a longtime Sunday School teacher.  

Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Sarah Jane Nix; a son, Thomas Kinnebrew Smith Jr.; and granddaughter Elizabeth McArthur Amsbary.