Hendersonville, North Carolina
Grady Smith
2024
Grady Sebastian Smith Sr., age 86, of Hendersonville, NC, passed away Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at Pardee Hospital. Born in Anderson, he was a son of the late Richard Lelious Smith Sr., and the late Hazel Herring Smith. Grady was an Erskine College graduate and worked in textiles for many of his early years. In 1970, he was named President of Defender Chemical in Columbia, SC. Grady began working at Carolina Forklift in 1982. He ultimately bought the business and was the owner and operator until his retirement in 2006. Outside of work, Grady enjoyed playing golf, landscaping, collecting antique clocks, and traveling around the world with his wife, Linda Gail Smith. Though Grady enjoyed...