Sonja Kay Smith
Mrs. Smith was born September 6, 1954, in Texarkana, Texas. She was a homemaker and a member of Liberty Ministries. Sonja loved her church family and enjoyed volunteering in different church roles. Whether cooking a meal or gathering supplies for families in Honduras, she was there with a servant’s heart. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. Sonja always took the opportunity to share Jesus. She was preceded in death by her husband, Milton Smith; her parents, Wanda Masters and Almer Gene McBride; one brother, Terry McBride; one daughter, Kelly Hensley; and two great-grandchildren, Brycian and Elijah.
She is survived by two daughters and one son-in-law, Vanessa and Tim Moten of Texarkana, Arkansas; Serenity Maynard of Texarkana, Arkansas; a son, Christian Hensley of Houston, Texas; three sisters, Beth Matney and her husband, Jerry of Texarkana, Arkansas; Donna Sanchez and her husband, Armando of Texarkana, Texas; Dana McBride of Genoa, Arkansas; three grandchildren, Stormie Moten, Samantha Hensley, David Maynard, two special great-grandchildren, Kingstyn and Bryley; two special friends, Jon and Lisa Rhodes of McNab, Arkansas, one son and daughter-in-law, David and Christie Taylor of Grand Saline, Texas; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, numerous, nephews, nieces and church family.
Funeral Services will be at 1:00 P.M. Friday, November 29, 2024, at Texarkana Funeral Home, Arkansas with Bro. Luplow officiating. Burial will be in Sylverino Cemetery.