Mother Savannah Fulton Smith was born February 17, 1925, in Woodville, Georgia, of Greene County to the late Love Fulton and the late Bessie Mae McCommons Fulton. She was married to the late George Smith. She was mother to Frances, Helen, and William.

She joined the Randolph Baptist Church in Union Point Georgia at an early age and still considered it her home church. After moving to Atlanta, she joined The Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church under the leadership of Reverend Frank Jones. Throughout her sixty plus years at The Grove, she served as Sunday School teacher, BTU teacher, the Willing Workers Ministry, Senior Ministry and a Mother of the Church.

She was educated in the Greene County School System at Woodville Elementary /High School where she received her high school diploma. She loved learning. As one of her sisters said, "She loved anything that had something to do with school. When we were little, we lived across the road from the church. She would get up on Sunday morning, dress and run across the road to Sunday School." As an adult, she enjoyed night classes at a local middle school where she studied sewing and type writing. She enjoyed making clothes for herself and others.

Her favorite pastime was gardening. In her earlier years, she grew vegetables. In her later years, she enjoyed making the yard beautiful. She would spend hours every day enjoying the outdoors with her plants, if the weather permitted. And, yes, she had a green thumb.

Savannah is the only one from her maternal family to reach 100 years of age. She departed this life peacefully early Saturday morning, March 8, 2025, after a brief illness at home in Decatur, Georgia.

Savannah was the oldest of eleven children and survived all except her two youngest sisters Emily and Ida. She was preceded in death by five sisters: Emma Mae, Annie Lee, Lula Mae, Everlean and Carrie; and three brothers: James, Henry and Ruben.

She leaves to cherish her memory one son: William Smith; two daughters: Frances Coleman (Thomas) and Helen Smith; three grandchildren: Maurice Smith (Maureen), Trevor Coleman and Kendra Hines (Xavier); six great grands: Kayla Laureano, Tyree Smith, Marc Smith, Michael Smith, Cameron Hines and Caleb Hines; two sisters: Emily Baugh and Ida McCommons; a sister-in-law Veronica McCommons; a host of nieces and nephews, relatives, non-biological children who know her as Mom, and friends.

Services: Monday, March 17, 2024 at 11:00 from Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church, Atlanta with interment at Randolph Baptist Church, Union Point.

Services entrusted to Donald Trimble Mortuary, Decatur, Ga. Announcement courtesy of Watts Funeral Home, Union Point.