Emily Catherine Smith DiLisio, 35, died June 23, 2007, in Hattiesburg. She was born in Brookhaven on Nov. 23, 1971, to Philip E. Smith Sr. and Phyllis Bonfiglio Hobbs. In 1989 she graduated from Brookhaven High School and was named the Brookhaven Lions Club Water Carnival Queen. She attended Copiah-Lincoln Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi. She was a 1991 graduate of Pensacola Junior College, with an associate degree in computer networking. She served in the United States Navy. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hattiesburg.

Survivors are her father and stepmother, Philip E. Smith Sr. and Minda Smith, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates; her mother and stepfather, Phyllis Hobbs and Russell Hobbs, of Hattiesburg; her son, Noah Steven DiLisio, of Hattiesburg; her daughter, Ashleigh Faith DiLisio, of Hattiesburg; her brothers, Philip E. Smith Jr. and wife Michelle Smith, of Brookhaven, and Sean Philip Smith and Tomas Herman Smith, both of Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and her sister, Jennifer Leigh Davis Heffner and husband Mike Heffner, of Reston, Va.