Paula Kay Smiddy, age 72 years, 7 months, and 22 days, of the Worley community, passed away Thursday, January 20, 2022, in Somerset, Kentucky and was placed in the care of the Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, January 26, 2022, in the chapel of the Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Angel Cemetery.
She was born May 29, 1949, in Somerset to William A. “Bill” Ball and Evelyn Griffis Ball Strunk. Paula graduated from the University of the Cumberlands with a bachelor's degree in education and taught English in the Campbell County Tennessee School District until her retirement. In her spare time, she enjoyed sewing, quilting, reading, and spending time with her family.
Preceding her in death were her parents, an infant daughter, Laura Smiddy, and her twin brother, Nicky Ball.
Survivors include daughters, Amie Scott and her husband, Shane, and Cindy Scott and her husband, Shawn, grandchildren, Sarah, Hanna, Leah, William, Caleb, Marisa, and Laura, great grandchildren, Elijah and Nolan, a sister, Cheryl Ann Reynolds and her husband, Bill, and the father of her children, Bobby Smiddy.
Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home was honored to serve the family of Paula Kay Smiddy.