Obit of Smith, Betty (Merveldt) - Canadian County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri    21 Aug 2005
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Surnames: MERVELDT, SMITH, AUSTIN, KASTNER

from 4-29-2003 Examiner Enterprise

Betty Smith

Mrs. Betty (Merveldt) Smith, 74, wife of Mr. Don L. Smith and resident 
past 21 years died at 4:04 p.m. on Saturday at Jane Phillips Medical 
Center.

A Rosary will be said at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday in the Memory Chapel of 
the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence. The Mass of the Resurrection will be 
celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday in St. John Catholic Church. Father 
Steven E. Austin will be the celebrant. Dedication of the grave, committal 
prayers and final rites will be directed in the Memorial Park Cemetery by 
the Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Memorials have been established with the American Cancer Society and the 
American Lung Association. Friends who care may send gifts to the American 
Cancer Society or American Lung Association, % Mrs. Kathy Leeper, Post 
Office Box 1094, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74005.

Mrs. Betty Smith will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of the Arnold 
Moore Funeral Service where friends may call for visitation on Tuesday 
evening and until she is removed to the church on Thursday morning.

A native of Canadian County Oklahoma, Betty D. Merveldt was born April 18, 
1929 in El Reno. She was the daughter of the late Ferd and Nell Margaret 
(Smith) Merveldt. She was reared and completed her education in El Reno 
and graduated with the Senior Class of 1946 from the El Reno High School. 
She continued her education at William Woods College, Fulton, Missouri and 
later at Oklahoma A.&M. College, Stillwater where she graduated in l950. 
She was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. She and Donald Lloyd Smith were 
united in marriage on September 2, 1950 at Okarche, Oklahoma in Holy 
Trinity Catholic Church. They made their home in Tulsa where Mr. Smith was 
employed with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. His job took the family 
to various communities including Nowata, Oklahoma City, Muskogee and to 
Bartlesville in December of l954 for two years. They later had residences 
in Houston, Texas, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, 
Missouri. Following their retirement in l982 at St. Louis, they returned 
to Bartlesville to make their home. Mrs. Smith was a devoted wife and 
mother, active in St. John Catholic Church. She was active as a volunteer 
for Bartlesville Community Center for 18 years and was an active member of 
the Pi Beta Phi Alumni.

Surviving are her husband, Donald L. "Don" Smith, of the home; three sons, 
Donald Michael Smith and wife, Susan, Austin, Texas, James Gary Smith and 
wife, Mary and Mark Lloyd Smith and wife, Rozann of Plano, Texas; seven 
grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Doris Kastner, Bartlesville. She was 
preceded in death by her father and mother.
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