Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 17, 2012, at 11 a.m. at Cunningham CME Church for Leon James Smith, Sr., 31, who died November 4, 2012, at Acadia-St. Landry Hospital in Church Point.

Viewing will be at the church from 8 a.m. until the times of services.

Burial will follow in the Rayne Protestant Cemetery.

Survivors are his loving mother, Sharlet Smith-Charles of Rayne; father, Ernest Comeaux, II and stepmother Carol Comeaux, of Crowley; a very special stepfather, Christopher Guilbeau, Sr., of Franklin; mother-in-law, Ruthie Senegal, Church Point; Clifford Senegal, Sr., Rayne; six children, Leon James Smith, Jr., Lance Smith, Katelyn SmiTH, Daeon Richard, Layla Richard, and Bricelyn Rochon, all of Rayne; a very special companion of 12 years, Joann Wheeler, Church Point; four sisters, Rachine (Michael) Smith, Constance Smith, Angelica Smith, all of Rayne, and Christie (John) Smith-Charles of Lake Charles; stepsisters and stepbrothers, Tarsha Allen, Courtney Allen, Sr., Ernest Comeaux, III, Opal Comeaux, Jasmine Comeaux, Kyron Benoit, Avery Chest, Anna Chester, all of Crowley, and Teresa Jones, Angelia Jones-Netherly, Crowley; and Crystal Gothe, Rayne; special grandparents, Vergia Yokum and Percy Smith, Sr., of Rayne; Ernest Comeaux, Sr., and the late Clara Comeaux, Crowley;

Leon was born August 1, 1981, in Rayne to Sharlet Smith and Ernest Comeaux, II.

Arrangements are entrusted to Wilturner Funeral Home of Crowley.