Wilma Smith

Wilma Smith lives on an eighty-acre farm in rural Mississippi. She

spent her childhood growing up on a small dairy farm. Having no

brothers, only sisters, her dad taught them to milk cows, drive

tractors, and haul hay just like boys. But her roots were also deeply

embedded in education since eight of her dad’s brothers and

sisters, including him, had been school teachers. She graduated

from East Central Community College and from Delta State

University with a B.A. degree in English and a minor in French.

Wilma taught in Mississippi Public Schools for twenty- five years

and retired. At that point, she joined the Mississippi Band of

Choctaw Indians and worked for fifteen years on the reservation

as an English teacher and RTI Facilitator.

Wilma married her high school sweetheart the week after she

graduated from Delta State, and they are celebrating forty- eight

years of marriage. She is the mother of three children, Emily,

Shannon, and Richard; mother-in-law to Carl, Kevin, and

Samantha; and Grammy to six adorable grandchildren, Drew,

Reed, Ryan, Morgan, Annie, and Bentley.

Wilma enjoys reading, sewing, appliqueing, monogramming,

crafting, and watching her grandchildren play ball. She loves to

create something from nothing. Retirement has graciously

allowed leisure to also become a part of her life. Weather

permitting, at about noon every day, she and her husband will be

found fishing in their pond for catfish and bream. After fishing,

she returns home to swing on her front porch and enjoy her diet

coke. She loves a simple, quiet life.

God has blessed her life with so much goodness: a wonderful

family, gracious friends, and His unconditional love. She never

planned to write a book. It just happened one night when her heart

was filled with emotion.