Obit of Smethers, Dorothy Lee - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri    21 Aug 2005
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Surnames: SMETHERS, ROPER, HENLEY, LUCAS, GARRISON, BROWN, SMITH, HOGUE,
          MILLER, LANKFORD, GREEN, BOLLIG, MEIER, CRIPPEN, WHITTINGTON

from 5-5-2003 Examiner Enterprise

Dorothy L. Smethers

Mrs. Dorothy Lee Smethers, 80, of Bartlesville died unexpectedly on 
Thursday, May 1, 2003 at her home.

Funeral services for Mrs. Smethers will be held at 1:00 P.M. Tuesday, May 
6, 2003 at the Adams Blvd. Church of Christ with Mr. Sidney Roper and Mr. 
Art Henley officiating. Interment will be in the Mount Hope Cemetery at 
Independence, Kansas under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home.

Casket escorts will include Bobby Lucas, Denzil Garrison, Don Brown, 
Dexter Smith, Duain Hogue, and Mitch Miller.

Mrs. Smethers was born on August 5, 1922 at Neosho, Missouri to Humphry 
and Nancy (Lankford) Green. She grew up and received her education at 
Neosho and she was married to Wayne Smethers at Cordell, Oklahoma on March 
24, 1944. Following Mr. Smethers discharge from the military, they made 
their home at Neosho, Missouri. Mr. Smethers was active as a Church of 
Christ minister in the Tuttle area and in other areas part-time. They made 
their homes where Mr. Smethers served as minister of Churches of Christ in 
Wagoner, Pauls Valley and in Ada until coming to Bartlesville in 1959 as 
minister of the Limestone Church of Christ until 1978 and then as minister 
of the Pathfinder Church of Christ in 1979. Mrs. Smethers was employed as 
the manager of the Notions department at the TG & Y Store and later the 
AIM Store in Bartlesville until her retirement.

Mrs. Smethers is survived by two sons, Alan Smethers of Bartlesville, and 
Steve Smethers and his wife, Sharold of Bartlesville, two grandchildren, 
LaRonna Bollig of Independence, Kansas and Cris Crippen of Las Vegas, 
Nevada, and five great grandchildren, Derek Meier, Kelsie Meier, Kaylee 
Bollig, Benjamin Crippen, and Josh Bollig. Mrs. Smethers was preceded in 
death by her parents, one brother, Paul Green, her husband, Wayne Smethers 
on November 1, 1991, her daughter, Becky Lynne (Smethers) Whittington on 
October 17, 1996, and by a granddaughter, Sarah Whittington.
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