Sally Elizabeth Smoot's Obituary
Sally Elizabeth Smoot
Sally was the youngest of four daughters of Lloyd and Fay (Robinson) Smoot. Her three sisters Barbara, Carol and Susan decided she should be named Sally for the character “Baby Sally” in a well-known elementary school reader at the time.
She was born in Dallas, a member of Park Cities Baptist Church, graduated from Hillcrest High School and Baylor University in Waco. She taught in Dallas schools, while working on her master’s degree at SMU. She began working for IBM as a computer programmer.
She took early retirement and began adventures that led her on a horseback backpacking ride across Canada and a trip to Australia where she went scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef and went hang-gliding from a cliff. She began a business as an antique dealer. She devoted much of her life to taking care of her mother and then her father until their deaths.
During the war in the Middle East, Sally gathered multiple shipments of supplies from socks, foot powder, to Christmas trees, anything she thought would bring joy and comfort to the soldiers. In appreciation, the soldiers sent her a flag that flew over their base.
She paid for a water well to be drilled in an African village, and they were so grateful they named a child Sally in her honor. She also supported two African children through a children’s fund.
She was devoted to her French bulldog named Pinkie and had more recently rescued a French bulldog named Van Gough with a missing ear.
Though she never had children, she was devoted to her many nieces and nephews, celebrating their births with their families and then their birthdays over the years. Surviving nieces and nephews include Rob, Aimee, Will, Ellie, Alise, Bryan, Bracely, Levi, Elijah, Anna, Chris, Kevin, Ryan and Lauren.
A visitation is on schedule Sunday, March 9, 2025, from 5PM to 7 PM at Restland Funeral Home, located at 13005 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75243. The service will take place the following day, Monday, March 10, 2025, at 2 PM at Restland Funeral Home's Memorial Chapel.
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