==Personal life==
Smith was twice married. By the former Helen Jordan(1934-2020), whom he wed in 1953, were born three children: Marilyn S. O'Hare (born 1954), Patricia Smith "Tricia" Hensarling (born 1955), and Robert Ray Smith (1959–1998). Marilyn O'Hare is a financial planner in [[Baton Rouge]] and resident of Prairieville, Louisiana. Tricia is State Adult Services Director for the Office of Mental Health and married to Kinard Dale Hensarling (born 1951), a [[United Methodist]] minister in Opelousas. Son Robert R. Smith died at the age of thirty-nine.<ref name=statement/><ref name=adtt>Obituary of Floyd W. Smith Jr.,''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', accessed February 12, 2010</ref>
Floyd and Helen Smith divorced in the early 1970s; she remarried married Herman Monroe Millican (1941-2016) and resides resided in Houston. In 1977, he married the former Shirley McLean, a Shreveport native and the former wife of Jay Reeves Bond, Sr., of Pineville. The Smiths resided at 188 Floyd Smith Road outside Winnfield.<ref>Net Detective People Search</ref>
Smith died of [[pneumonia]] at the age of seventy-seven in Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria.<ref name=adtt/> In addition to his wife and daughters, he was survived by a sister, Juanita S. Carter of [[Bossier City]], and two stepsons, Jay Bond, Jr. (born c. 1959) of Doyline and Brad Alan Bond (born c. 1961) of Gonzales, Louisiana, three step-grandchildren, and three step-great-grandchildren. Services were held at the chapel of Southern Funeral Home in Winnfield on February 14, 2010. He is interred at Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Winnfield.<ref name=adtt/>