Shellie Rebecca Smith Gilliam, age 52, Paris, TN, died Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. A memorial service will be announced at a later and her cremains will be buried at Memorial Cemetery. Her parents, Henry Franklin Smith and Betty Charlene Dowdy Smith Hudson, are both preceded. She is survived by sister, Merita Kay (Danny Ray) Dunn, Big Sandy, TN; step-grandchildren, Jody, Judy, Rebecca and Tarrie Gilliam; nephews, Bryan (Teri) Stephens, Big Sandy, TN, Clay Cook, Nashville, TN; great-nieces, Melody Stephens, Murray, KY, Amie Jo Stephens, Big Sandy, TN, Rachel Bastyr, Big Sandy, TN; and life long friend, Lynn Steele, Paris, TN. Her brother, George Dawson Smith, III, preceded in 1985.