Services for Avis Smith, 84, of Lubbock will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Faith Baptist Church with the Revs. O.E. Price, Jay Morse and Richard Crane officiating.Burial will be in Spur Cemetery under direction of Rix Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Smith died Wednesday, April 6, 1994, in South Park Hospital.
She was born on Jan. 20, 1910, in Tuscola and was married to Walter L. Smith in Spur on Aug. 27, 1930. She had been a Lubbock resident since 1943 and was a homemaker and a Baptist. A son, Charlie, died in 1951.
She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Ludene Miller of Wolfforth; two grandchildren; and eight great grandchildren.
Nephews will serve as pallbearers.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Friday, April 8, 1994
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
Funeral services for Walter L. Smith, 91, of Lubbock were at 1 p.m. in the New Testament Baptist Church on Tuesday, February 6 with Pastor Richard Craven officiating. Burial followed at 3 p.m. in Spur Memorial Cemetery under direction of Rix Funeral Directors.Mr. Smith died February 5 at Highland Medical Center.
He was born February 2, 1905 in Catahoula Paris, Louisiana. He married Avis Robinson in Spur on August 27, 1930 and she died in 1994. He moved to Lubbock in 1943 and was employed by Farmers Co-Op Compress as a foreman until he retired in 1970. He was a member of the New Testament Baptist Church.
Mr. Smith was preceded in death by a son, Charlie, in 1951.
Survivors include a daughter, Ludene Miller of Wolfforth; two grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; one brother, Doty Smith of Universal City, California.
©The Texas Spur, February 16, 1996
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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