After divorcing, Smalls relocated from
Dayton, Ohio, to Beaufort, South Carolina, with her six children in 1982. She began working as Arts Coordinator for the City of Beaufort. She and her mother (who grew up in
Honea Path, South Carolina) also established the Lowcountry School for Music, where they provided piano and vocals lessons to students in the Beaufort area. They had almost two hundred students in their early years. The parents of some of her students became the original version of the Hallelujah Singers. Smalls was inducted into the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame in 2004. She received an honorary doctorate from the
University of South Carolina. == References ==