Obit of Smith, Janice - Mayes County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>    2 Mar 2008
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Smith, Janice

Wilma Janice Bell, was born August 15, 1926 in Pryor (Pryor Creek), 
Oklahoma to William and Mary Jo (Buffington) Bell. William was the 
youngest Postmaster of a First Class Post Office in the entire United 
States - a distinction that still holds. Mary Jo was a daughter of 
one of the Cherokee pioneer settlers in Mayes County, Oklahoma. 
Janice attended Tulsa University and Oklahoma State University and 
graduated from the Tulsa School of Business. At age 19 she took a job 
with the fede ral government as a secretary to the manager of the 
Social Security Administration. She was married to Merle T. Smith in 
1948. She was included in the 1987-88 edition of "Who's Who in U. S. 
Writers, Editors and Poets" and the 1986 edition of"American 
Anthology." She wrote professionaly from 1972 through 1992 and for 
two years was secretary of the The Academy of Country Music of 
Hollywood. After Merle's death in 1990, Janice married Frank Cox on 
December 2, 1998. They shared a great love of country music a nd 
continued to live in Diamond Bar, California, until her death on 
February 13, 2007. She will be greatly missed by her husband Frank, 
her nephews Harry and Herbert Smith, and all who loved her.

Published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on 2/21/2007.
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