Biography of Sue MESSICK, Scott Co, Arkansas

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Contributed by Delaine Edwards.
Aug 6 1999

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	The material transcribed below is from a special edition of the 
Scott County Advertiser newspaper of 3 April 1991, entitled "A Salute to 
Scott County Citizens 90 Years and Over." The interviews were done as
part of a celebration of the Bank of Waldron's 90th anniversary. They are
arranged alphabetically for presentation here. Pictures were included 
with these short biographies.

MESSICK, Sue: Sue Messick was born in Altus, Oklahoma, November 9, 1900
to Joe and Ollie Smithee. She attended school in Oklahoma, Texas and
New Mexico. At age 12 her family moved to Texas and later to New Mexico
where she met and married her husband Fred Messick who died in 1979. They
had one child, Mary Lee Messick, who lives with her. All three of the
Messicks served as missionaries for the Jehovah Witness Church from 1946
until 1963, in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.