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Milton and Winnie Smith
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Spur Memorial Cemetery
• Martin Addition
• Block 8D
• Lot 5 N 1/2

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• Clubbie Smith

Funeral services for Milton P. Smith, 85, were held Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Highway 70 Church of Christ with Vernon Williams, Odessa (formerly of Spur), officiating, assisted by Randy Mashburn, local church minister.

A retired farmer, Mr. Smith died April 26 in Methodist Hospital, Lubbock. He would have been 86 years old April 28. He was a member of the Church of Christ.

Born in the Red Mud community, 12 miles from Spur in 1895, he was known by the nickname 'Clubbie' all over West Texas. He farmed for over 40 years in the Spur-Post area and served with the Spur School district for 19 years. For the past 8 years he had been fishing and gardening.

Survivors include his wife, Winnie Lee Smith, Spur; three sons, Milton P. Smith, Jr., Hurst; Clifford B. Smith, Lamesa and Jimmy E. Smith, Alamogordo, NM; three daughters, Faye Hitt, Waco; Mary Lee McArthur, Spur; JoAnn Hite, Denver; a sister, Mrs. Dick (Norma) Sampson, Spur; 17 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.

Grandsons served as pallbearers.

Burial was in Spur Cemetery.

©The Texas Spur, April 30, 1981

• Winnie Smith

Funeral services for Winnie Lee Smith, 87, were held Wednesday morning at 11 in the Highway 70 Church of Christ. Vernon Williams, Odessa and a former minister here, officiated, assisted by Richard Trull, current church minister.

Mrs. Smith died April 1 about 2 a.m. in the Crosbyton Hospital following a lengthy illness. Born January 15, 1898 in Taylor county, she married Milton P. Smith on October 20, 1917 in Snyder. Her husband died on April 26, 1981.

A homemaker, she had lived in Dickens County since 1917. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

Surviving are three sons, Milton P. Smith, Hurst; Clifford B. Smith, Lamesa and Jimmy E. Smith, Alamogordo, NM; three daughters, Mrs. Ralph (Faye) Hitt, Waco; Mrs. Woodrow (Mary) McArthur, Spur and Mrs. Don (Jo Ann) Hite, Denver, Colo.; one brother, W.H. Burns, Grapevine; three sisters, Nannie Newman and Lillie Marshall, both of Leonard and Beulah Freeman, Canton; 17 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.

Burial was in Spur Memorial Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

©The Texas Spur, April 4, 1985

from the records of Lillian Grace Nay

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