Haskell CO OK - Obit for Bessie Jewel Smith Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/haskell/obits/s5300001.txt ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Bessie Jewel Smith Bessie Jewel Smith, 90, of Amarillo, died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2001. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2820 Virginia Circle, with the Rev. Phillip Smith and the Rev. Mary Smith, pastors of Peoria Church of the Nazarene in Peoria, Ariz., officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery. Mrs. Smith was born in Bokoshe, Okla., and had been a longtime Amarillo resident. She was a homemaker and member of First Church of God. Survivors include a son, Marvin L. Smith of Amarillo; four daughters, Priscilla A. Chick and Nan Thompson, both of Amarillo, Eula Scott of Guymon, Okla., and Mary Smith of Phoenix; three sisters, Hazel Pier of Pond Creek, Okla., and Alice Shepard and Beth Mae Aldiec, both of Kinta, Okla.; 26 grandchildren; 62 great-grandchildren; and 25 great-great-grandchildren. Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 2, 2002 Click here to return to story: http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/010202/obi_allobits.shtml