Obit of Brinkley, Vivian Wanda Smith (b652) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  29 Aug 2004
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Surnames: Brinkley, Smith, Wilson, Platts, Beaver, Wilcox 

Originally posted at:
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Wanda was born in Cundiff, Jack County, Texas on February 25, 1921.  Her 
parents, Yeakley "Pop" and Allie Smith, moved their growing family to 
Tolbert, exas, and on to Carter, Oklahoma by covered wagon in 1923.  She 
was only a toddler and R.E. an infant, but her older siblings, Melvin, 
Cecil, and Veta Fay remembered the exciting events surrounding that 
crossing of the Red River.  On ew Year's Day, 1926, the family later moved 
to Crawford where the family later came into completion with the birth of 
the twins, Jaciedean and Imogene.

Wanda attended the Crawford schools.  After graduation from high school in 
1940, she moved to San Luis Obispo, California, where her oldest brother, 
Cecil and hife Opal, were living, met a railway co-worker of Cecil's, and 
after a 2 week courtship, married Marvin Brinkley Sr. in 1941.

Maevin and Wanda enjoyed 56 years of marriage and had 2 wonderful 
children, Steve and Elizabetg Ann.  They lived most of their married lives 
in the Phoenix, Arizona area where Marvin worked for the Southern Pacific 
Railroad as a yard switchman.  Upon retirement, they moved to Tucson.  
After Marvin passed away, in 1997, Wanda moved to Sun City, Arizona, so 
she could be involved in a lot of activities.  She enjoyed walking, 
crocheting, sewing and was very active in her LDS church.

Wanda passed away July 30, 2004, being preceded in death by her husband, 
Marvin, her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Brinkley Wilson, and her 
granddaughter, Valeri Wilson, both of San Diego, California, her brothers, 
Melvin Smith of Columbus, Ohio, and R.E. Smith, of Texas City, Texas, her 
sister, Veta Fay Smith Pratts, of Roll, Oklahoma, a half-brother, Everett 
Beaver, of Anson, Texas and a half-sister, Effie Beaver also of Anson.

Those alive to honor her memory are her son, Steve and his wife, Susan of 
Prescott, Arizona, 8 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren, her sister, 
Imogene Wilcox, of Borger, Texas, her brothers, Cecil Smith and his wife 
Betty, of Elk City, Jackiedean Smith and his wife, Wilma, of Borger, 
Texas, and a wholle host of nephews and nieces and other relatives.

Services were held August 3, 2004, at yhe LSD Chapel in Sun City, Arizona, 
interment at Tucson, Arizona.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 12-Aug-004
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