Coryell Co. Tx - Obit for Jeff Smart Submitted by Bobbie Ross with permission of the Gatesville Messenger & Star-Forum Copyright, http://www.gatesvillemessenger.com/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Gatesville Messenger July 1984 Jeff Smart dies at 87 Memorial services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Scott's Funeral Chapel for Thomas Jefferson Smart, age 87, who died Sunday in Gatesville. The Rev. Harvey Ozmer officiated. Burial was at Hillsdale Cemetery. A rancher in Lampasas and Coryell counties until his retirement in 1972, Mr. Smart was born to the late H.R. and Mary Smart in Bruceville, Texas on Aug. 12, 1918. He was a World War I veteran and a member of the First United Methodist Church. He retired in 1972. Mr. Smart is survived by his wife Tula Mae Smart; his son Howard Smart of Levita; his daughter Freda Martin of Oglesby; and three sisters, Nell Pearce, Bertha Watson and Mary Clary, all of Lampasas. He is also survived by five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.