San Joaquin County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Bigby-Smith , Esther  February 7, 2005
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Lodi News  Feb 18, 2005 
Esther Bigby-Smith 
Esther Tessie Bigby-Smith, 87, of Vancouver, Wash., and formerly of Lodi, died 
Feb. 7. She was born Esther Fletcher Dodson on Jan. 14, 1918, in Hanson, Okla.

Mrs. Bigby-Smith married Walter Duncan "W.D." Bigby Jr. in 1935. They made 
their home in Klamath Falls, Ore., where they became pastors of a small Full 
Gospel Tabernacle in 1950. 

In 1962, she and her husband moved to Lodi, where they became pastors of 
Calvary Temple until resigning in 1966. Later, she married William E. Smith in 
Lodi. She later lived in Mission Viejo, Meford, Ore., and then settled in 
Vancouver, Wash., where she lived with her daughter.




Esther Bigby-Smith 
She enjoyed being a minister's wife and working in the ministry. She also 
enjoyed spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her sons, the Rev. Ed Bigby, of Dallas, and Virgil Bigby, of 
Vancouver, Wash.; daughter, Barbara Jean Hunter-Doholis, of Vancouver; brother, 
Ernest Franklin Dodson; sister, Helen Spenser; nine grandchildren, nine great-
grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

She was preceded in death by her first husband of 31 years, the Rev. Walter 
Duncan Bigby, in 1966; second husband, William E. Smith; brothers, the Rev. 
Oliver Dodson and George Dodson; sisters, Hazel English-Kennerly and Rose 
Miller; and one great-grandson, Christopher James Bigby.

A memorial service was held Feb. 11 at Crossroads Community Church in 
Vancouver, Wash, with the Rev. Ed Bigby officiating. Interment was held at 
Cherokee Memorial Park Cemetery in Lodi. 

Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. 



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