Hunt Co., TX - Obits: George Wesley Smith ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** George Wesley Smith George Wesley Smith, 90, a resident of Grand Prairie for twenty years and formerly of Hickory Creek community, died in a rest home at Crosbyton Tuesday, January 24, 1967. He had been a resident there the past nine months. Funeral services were held at 2:30 PM Wednesday, January 25, 1967, at First Baptist Church in Leonard. Rev. Earnest Duncan, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Grand Prairie, officiated, assisted by Rev. Ed Russell, pastor of the Leonard church. Burial was made in Leonard Cemetery under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home. He was born January 5, 1877 in Millport, Alabama, son of W. W. Smith and Sarah Beasley Smith. Mr. Smith married Miss Pearl Mayes in Leonard in 1920 and she preceded him in death on March 31, 1966. The family lived in the Hickory Creek community before moving to Grand Prairie. Mr. Smith was a retired farmer and a member of the Fairview Baptist Church in Grand Prairie. Survivors are three sons, Cldye Smith of Roswell, New Mexico; Joe B. Smith of Paramount, California; Robert Smith of Arlington; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Waldrop and Mrs. Ardell Justus, both of Crosbyton; one brother, Jack Smith of Columbus, Mississippi; one sister, Mrs. B. F. Thomas of Sommerville, Georgia; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. (January 27, 1967, The Celeste Courier)