Barbara Daniel Smiley

Barbara Daniel Smiley passed peacefully to be with the Lord October 12, 2022. She was born January 4, 1930, in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lived until she moved with her parents, Frances and William Daniel to Raleigh, North Carolina. She loved growing up in Raleigh and attended St. Mary’s, Meredith, and Duke Universities. After marrying her high school sweetheart, Tom Smiley, the newlyweds moved to California where he was a Navy pilot serving in the Korean conflict. Afterwards, they returned to North Carolina where they graduated from UNC. They moved to Texas in 1957 and Barbara pursued her love of painting portraits and landscapes. While searching for a forever home, she fell in love with the Aledo valley and moved to Aledo in 1968 where they raised four daughters. Barbara was a founding member of the Aledo Christian Center and a long time teacher in the Aledo School System. Because she showed such compassion for struggling elementary readers, Barbara was asked by the principal to launch the first program for Special Education at the elementary school. When this was established, she moved to implement the program in the middle and then high school.

Barbara was preceded in death by her daughter, Beth Smiley Becker, who passed away in 2013. 

She is survived by husband, Tom; daughters, Kit Smiley Marshall and husband, Hugh, Laura Smiley Paulk and husband, Larry, and BJ Smiley Goins and husband, Ron; ten grandchildren; and thirteen great-grandchildren. We celebrate her life and remember her love, her love of Jesus, her artistic creativity, and her beautiful and joyful smile.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, October 16, 2022, at Galbreaith Pickard Funeral Chapel in Weatherford, followed by a service there on Monday, October 17, 2022, at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in Brown Cemetery, Aledo, Texas.

For those wishing to do so, memorials may be made to WallBuilders.