{"id":49679,"date":"2025-11-25T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=49679"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:45:30","slug":"jamie-r-big-daddy-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/jamie-r-big-daddy-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie R. &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"339\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Den-Herder-obit-Jamie-Smith.jpeg?fit=318%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49680\" style=\"width:250px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">PAULDING, OH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Jamie R. &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Smith<\/strong>, age 53, of Paulding, OH passed away at his home on Saturday, November 22, 2025 surrounded by his family after a 3 1\/2 year long hard-fought battle with cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Jamie was born on March 10, 1972 in Paulding, OH to his parents Sandra (Goodenough) Wolfe and Ronald Smith. He was baptized in the St. Paul Lutheran Church, Paulding, OH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He worked for 14 years at Defiance Metal Products. Jamie was an avid Chicago Bears and University of Michigan Wolverines fan as well as a movie buff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Jamie is survived by his mother and stepfather, Sandi and Tim Wolfle, Paulding, OH; father, Ronald Smith; daughter, Audrey (Tim) Jones, Paulding, OH; brother, Josh (Shelly) Smith, Defiance, OH; step-brother, Dakota (Steph) Wolfle, Paulding, OH; step sister, Haylee (Nic) Wolfle, Plain City, OH; granddaughter, Elianna Jones, Paulding, OH; niece, Jade Dean; nephews, Dravyn McDonald and Merrick and Maddock Wolfe; great nieces, Christina, Paris and Jamie (named after Uncle Jamie); aunts, Cindi Williams and Beth (Eric) Stoller; special friends, Tammy (Horn) Kosch and Brenda Flores; and his fur baby, Gracie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Gene and Elizabeth Goodenough and Jack and Eldean Smith; uncles, Jack and Tim Smith and Tom Goodenough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Memorial service will be at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, 2025 at Den Herder Funeral Home, Paulding OH. There will be calling hours from 12:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday at the funeral home before the memorial service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Memorial contributions may be made in Jamie&#8217;s memory to Pretty In Pink, Elaine Manz Memorial Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Online condolences may be shared at www.denherderfh.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAULDING, OH: Jamie R. &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Smith, age 53, of Paulding, OH passed away at his home on Saturday, November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Den-Herder-obit-Jamie-Smith.jpeg?fit=318%2C339&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cVh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 07:52:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49681,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49679\/revisions\/49681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}