Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Richard Blaine Smith
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 5/16/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
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Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
MAY 7, 2002

RICHARD BLAINE SMITH
     Peggs---Graveside funeral services for Richard Blaine Smith will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 
8, 2002, at New Home Cemetery in Peggs with Rev. Bobby Long officiating
     Services will be under the direction of the Reed-Culver Funeral Home of Tahlequah.
     Pallbearers are Jerry Smith, Ronnie Smith, Robert Smith, Jim Mayfield, George Yarbrough, Wayne 
Barnes and Joshuah Smith.  Honorary pallbearers are Pete Barnes, Mike Mayfield and Tom Wall.
     Smith was born Nov. 20, 1945, at Visalia, Calif., the son of Carl Truman Smith and Pauline (Logan) 
Stallion, and he passed from this life on Saturday, May 4, 2002 in Tahlequah.
     Richard grew up in Visalia, Calif., and attended Redwood High School.  He served in the U.S. Air 
Force and was a Vietnam veteran.
    He worked at Dairyman Cooperative Creamery in Tulare, Calif., retiring in 1993.
    He married Lorinda on Oct. 26, 1985, in Las Vegas.  They moved to Tahlequah in 1993, where he 
owned and operated Smith Appraisal Co.  Richard loved deer hunting, gambling and enjoyed his 
grandkids, family and friends.
     Smith was preceded in death by his father.
     He is survived by his wife Lorinda Smith of the home; his mother, Pauline 
Stallion of Visalia, Calif.; his children, Tom Smith and wife Lisa of 
Tulare,Calif., Colette Wall of Pryor, Cathy Perez and husband Johnny, of Tulare, 
Calif., Melissa Smith of Tulare, Calif., and Robin Reinhart of Tahlequah; his 
brothers, Robert Smith of Visalia, Calif., Ronnie Smith of Jerome, Idaho, Blaine 
Smith of Juneau, Alaska, and Larry Smith of Portland, Ore.; his sisters, Ruth 
Alice Egger of Visalia, Calif., and Carline Yarbough of West Plains, Mo.; nine 
grandchildren; and a host of friends and loved ones.