Mrs. Janelle (Judy) Franklin Smith, 85, of Clermont, Ga. died on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. A Funeral Service will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 29, 2024, at Friendship Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ga. Pastor Cody Ansley and Pastor Joey Pritchett will officiate the service. The family will receive friends at the church from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 before the service. Interment will follow the service in the church cemetery.

 Judy is preceded in death by her husband Billy Joe Smith; her father and mother C. H. Franklin and Willie Agnes Teat Franklin.

Judy is survived by her daughters Patti Pethel Flow (Joseph) and Sheri Pethel Gibbs (Jason Elrod); her sons John Timothy Smith (Dawn), and Bill Gregory Smith (Pam); her grandchildren Melissa White Crowder (Noah), Trevor Flow, Heather White Cartee (Chris), Jeremy Flow (Nicole), Jessica Flow Bagwell (Adam), Katie Smith Gillespie (Scott), Kaleb Smith, and Jared Smith; eighteen great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.  W. R. Strickland & Sons, Clermont, Ga.