Obit of Rosa Lee Smith (s530) - Roger Mills County, OK Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 28 Aug 2002 ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ========================================================================= Surnames: Smith, Morris, Waterfield, Barclay, Robertson, Mitchell, Holman, Daily, Turner, Holland Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/4954 Rosa Lee Smith, daughter of Lydia Phonetta Waterfield and William Edward Morris, granddaughter of Clarence Edward Morris and Elizabeth Barclay, was born December 28, 1908 in Knotts Island, North Carolina and passed away September 25, 1999 in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital, Cheyenne, Oklahoma, at the age of 90 years, 8 months and 27 days. Rosa was one of nine children. Her paternal grandfather, Clarence Edward Morris, was a British Naval Officer shipwrecked in Currituk Sound, of the North Carolina Coast. He died before she was born and she never knew any more of her ancestry than a small picture on a glass of her grandfather, which she cherished as a keepsake. She ofter shared with her children, and other, experiences of her carefree years on Knotts Island, as they wondered together about her grandfather who had died. In 1929 she married Roland McCoy Smith. They had two children, Ronald, Jr. and Dorothy Ann. They moved to San Antionio, Texas in 1972 after thirty years as residents of Norfolk, Virginia. She still had nieces and nephews in and around Norfolk, chesapeake and Virginia Beach, Virginia. In her later years, she wrote numerous poems for her loved ones. Several of them were worthy of publication-all of them reminiscent of her love for her family. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roland, her son, Roland, Jr., and all of her brothers and sisters. Her survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Dorothy and Fred Robertson, Elk City, Oklahoma, her daughter-in-law, Alice Smith, of San Antonio, Texas; five grandchildren, Shelley Mitchell Holman and husband, Vincent, Elk City, Oklahoma, Lisa Marie Daily, San Antonio, Texas, Mark Turner, Victoria, Texas and Nancy Holland, San Antonio, Texas, four great grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 30-Sep-1999