SMILEY OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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SMILEY, B. W. (Bill) Dr. 1920 - 1998

Dr. B. W. (Bill) Smiley died Saturday, June 6, 1998, at Westwood Nursing Center, 
Clinton, at the age of 77 years. He was born October 10, 1920, in Ponca City, OK, 
the son of Mames Edwin and Margaret Belt Smiley. He was a veteran of the United 
States Air Force. Dr. Smiley was an optometrist and had an office in Clinton for 
many years, prior to his retirement in 1995. Funeral services were held June 9, 
1998, at Consalus Chapel with burial in Englewood Cemetery. 


SMILEY, Ernest Ted Dr. 1922 - 1996

Dr. Ernest Ted Smiley died in Oklahoma City of a heart attack on Friday, December 
13, 1996. He was born in Montrose on November 18, 1922. He was the son of 
James Edwin Smiley and Margaret Belt Smiley. He lettered in football and 
basketball and was president of the senior class. He went to the University of 
Missouri on a football scholarship. When World War II started he joined the 
Marines. He was a second lieutenant in the Pacific for four years. After the war 
he attended optometry school in Chicago. On March 11, 1951, he married Dorothy 
Yancey in Prescott, Arkansas. He and his family lived in Aurora until 1957. They 
moved to Oklahoma City where his family still resides. He was a member of 
Rotary and the Kiwanis. He was president of the Oklahoma Optometric 
Association in the early 1960's. He was an active member of the Professional 
Businessmen's Association which he helped start in the early 1960's. He was an 
active member of Grace United Methodist Church. Golf was one of his passions. He 
never met a stranger and he always had a joke to tell. He is survived by his wife, 
Dorothy, and his son, Jim, two granddaughters, Ashley and Adrian, all of 
Oklahoma; one sister, Marjorie Smiley Parks and his brother, Dr. B. W. Smiley of 
Clinton and a niece, Patricia Parks, Blue Springs.


SMILEY, Margaret Angeline BELT 1897 - 1966

Margaret A. Belt, daughter of Edward L. and Sally Hathaway Belt, was born near 
Montevallo, October 17, 1897, and departed this life May 5, 1966, in the general 
hospital, Clinton, Mo., where she had been a patient some two weeks. Her death 
was attributed to a quick form of cancer. At the age of three, her mother passed 
away, and Margaret made her home with her maternal grandparents until at eight 
years of age she began keeping house for her father. They moved frequently to be 
near her father's employment, and she grew up in the Montevallo, Dederick and 
Harwood communities, later going to Montrose, where she attended high school. 
In 1916 she was united in marriage to James E. (Ted) Smiley at Montrose, where 
they made their home. They moved to Clinton in 1927. They were parents of a 
daughter and two sons. Surviving are her husband of the home, daughter, Mrs. M. F. 
Parks, and sons, Billy Wayne Smiley, Clinton and Ernest Ted Smiley, Oklahoma 
City; three grandchildren; one brother, Elba R. Belt, Erie, Kas; other relatives. Mrs. 
Louis Parker of El Dorado Springs was a niece. Funeral services and burial took 
place at Clinton Saturday. 

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