Cooke Co., TX - Obits: Karen Smelley ************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Don Raymond USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************** KAREN SMELLEY Daily Register, Gainesville Texas, Tuesday, September 21, 1999, page 2: Memorial service for Karen Smelley, 39, of Gainesville, is set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Darren Baucum, pastor of Harvey Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery under the direction of the funeral home. Mrs. Smelley died Sept. 19, 1999, at Gainesville Memorial Hospital. She was born July 9, 1960, in Gainesville to Jesse and Imogene Thomison Brinkley. On April 10, 1979, she married Dennis Smelley in Denton. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Dennis Smelley of Gainesville; daughters, Rachael and Ashley Smelley of Gainesville; sons, Jordon and Chris Smelley of Gainesville; parents, Jesse and Imogene Brinkley of Gainesville; and sister, Lisa Lindenborn of Gainesville. She was preceded in death by her sister, Deborah Dotson; and brother Bobby Dale Brinkley. The family will be at the Geo. J. Carrol & Son Funeral Home from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.