Lena Lokey Newell Smith, 94, of Shelbyville passed away Monday, September 27, 2021, at NHC Healthcare of Franklin.
Graveside services will be held 11 a.m. Friday, October 1, 2021, at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.
Lena was the eighth of eleven children of the late Neil Coble Lokey Sr. and Lydia Phillips Lokey. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by husbands, Robert B. Newell (1979) and Paul H. Smith (2013); all of her siblings and her son, Carter Ray Lokey.
She was born April 26, 1927 in Shelbyville. Lena attended Bedford County schools and was a member of Shelbyville Central High School’s Class of 1946. She worked in the restaurant industry for many years and after moving to Tallahassee, Florida she and her husband Robert owned and operated Newell’s Lakewood Supermarket. After her retirement to Shelbyville she spent many years caring for her second husband, Paul, while gardening, canning and freezing the produce from their garden.
More recently Lena was a resident of Celebration Way Assisted Living in Shelbyville.
She is survived by her niece, Carolyn (Kenneth) Brown of College Grove who has been her faithful loving caregiver and principal advocate for the past eight years and her granddaughter, Shannon (Jason) Douglas of Pardeeville, Wisconsin; three great-grandchildren and several other nieces and nephews.
Hillcrest Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
