Phillip Harrell Smith, age 87, a resident of Franklinton, Louisiana, passed away peacefully on July 6, 2024 at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, LA. Affectionately known as “Daddy, Dad, Poppaw Phillip, or Pops,” Phillip was born in McComb, Mississippi on August 24, 1936 to Samuel Harrell Smith, Jr. and Juanita Lytle Smith.