Cochran – Melvin Smith, age 70, passed away Sunday, January 12, 2025, in Phoebe Putney Hospital in Albany. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 11:00 A.M. in the chapel of Mathis Funeral Home. Burial will be private in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Melvin was a lifelong resident of Cochran. He was the son of the late Reubin and Mary Ruth Evans Smith and was preceded in death by his brothers, Robert Smith, Aubrey Smith and Charles Smith, his sister Judy Ann Smith Davis and his nephew Shawn T. Carr. He was a mechanic.

Survivors are his daughter, Jennifer Jones of Cochran; his grandson, Joshua Jones; his sister-in-law and brother-in -law, Judy and Dwaine Barlow of Cochran; his nieces and nephews, Dawn (Jimmy) Garner, Cory (Frankie) Smith and Scott (Bonnie) Carr; several cousins.

The family will greet friends after the service Tuesday at Mathis Funeral Home.