Monroe Smith Durley III

July 13, 1951 - July 2, 2019

Monroe Smith Durley III was born July 13, 1951 to the union of Charlene and Monroe Smith Durley Jr. in Jackson, Mississippi. Monroe and the family moved from Mississippi to Chicago, Illinois when he was a young boy. He completed his formal eduction in the Chicago Public School System. Monroe was a complicated young man. He was curious about life, experimented and tinkered with everything. He was a self taught carpenter who could build and fix anything. Monroe was a “Jack of all trades”. In 1991, Monroe married Diane Janise Smith. They were blessed with five children. He loved his family, enjoyed being a step dad, and took in other family members and neighbors kids, all whom he loved as his own. On July 2, 2019, Monroe Smith Durley III feel asleep in death. He was preceded in death by his father Monroe Smith Durley Jr., niece KeKee, and nephew Andre Jr. His family looks forward to welcoming him back to a paradise earth where sickness and death will be done away with forever. Monroe Smith Durley III leaves to cherish his memory and continue his legacy, his wife Diane Janise Durley; children Gregory, Aisha, Monroe IV, Novus, Israel, Gabriel, and Tishina; step daughter’s Tiffany (Kelly) Blackmon, Taccara Smith, and Marvell; mother Charlene Woods; siblings Gloria Dean, Cora, Tyrone, Sharon, Michael, Timothy, Ann, Katrina, Miriam, Derrick, Nadine and Janette; 22 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and a host of aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends too numerous to mention.