Obit of Smith, Essie - Johnston County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillo.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillo.com/ 8 Feb 2009 Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Memorial Park Cemetery--Amarillo TX Essie Smith Essie Smith, 85, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Memorial Park Funeral Home Chapel of Memories, 6969 E. Interstate 40, with Dr. Dana Moore of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Garden of Court of Flowers. Mrs. Smith was born in Tishomingo, Okla., and had been a lifelong Amarillo resident. She was a homemaker and a member of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. She married Albert A. Smith in 1929 at McLean. He died in 1986. She also was preceded in death by a son, Albert A. Smith Jr., in 1994. Survivors include a son, Jerry Don Smith of Amarillo; a sister, Bonnie King of Amarillo; seven grandchildren; and 10 great- grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to the activity fund at Georgia Manor Nursing Home or Gideons International. Amarillo Globe News 14 Aug 1997 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html