Born Eunice Virginia Copeland in Raleigh, Georgia to Walter Fred Copeland and Mattie Self Copeland. Grew up and graduated High School in Meriwether County, Georgia. Worked as a secretary for Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia and Florida. Moved to Atlanta and, in 1950, married Richard Ludolph Smith of Atlanta, Georgia.
In addition to raising three sons, she worked outside the home as a secretary for the federal government and in private industry. After retirement she and her husband Dick travelled extensively in the US and abroad.
She was predeceased by her beloved husband. She is survived by her sons, Richard L. Smith, Jr, Philip C. Smith and Clifton W. Smith, her daughters in law Candace Wilson Smith of Phoenix, Arizona, and Pamela Dale Boles of Midway, Georgia, her granddaughters Allison Wilson Smith of Washington, D.C., and Sara Copeland Smith of Guilford College, North Carolina and her grandson Zachary Michael Smith of McClean, Virginia.