Mable Smedley was born on March 8, 1921, to the union of Ashberry McGhee and Plummer Tatum McGhee in Reader, Arkansas.

Mabel accepted Christ at an early age and joined Pleasant Hill Baptist Church where she was very active. She received her formal education at the Pleasant Hill School in Chidester, Arkansas. Sister Smedley worked for the school district for many years. She had a reputation of always providing the children with candy. Sister Smedley had a way of always bringing a smile to the children faces.

She departed this life on Thursday, January 24, 2019, at home. Sister Smedley was joined in marriage to Ellis Smedley who proceeds her in death.

Sister Smedley is proceeded in death by her father Ashberry McGhee and mother, Plummer Tatum McGhee. Also, seven brothers: Charlie McGhee, Donnie McGhee, Norman McGhee, Earley McGhee, Ashberry McGhee, Jr., Nathaniel McGhee and Herman McGhee, four sisters: Vadie Abner, Lottie Gulley, Lacy McCoy and Earlene Smith.

She leaves to cherish in memory: one daughter, Bettye Patton of Chattanooga, Tennessee, two sons, John "Joe" Allen of Chidester, Arkansas and James Allen of Peoria, Illinois; one sister, Berline Purifoy of Peoria, Illinois and one brother, Hessley McGhee of Atlanta, Georgia, a host of grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Services will be held February 2, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Chidester, Arkansas.

Visitation will be Friday, February 1, 2019, at Williams Funeral Home, 504 North Adams, Camden, Arkansas from 2:00 to 7:00 pm.