Funeral services for Mrs. Viola C. Smith, 79 were held March 4 at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church, Spur. Rev. Norris Taylor officiating, assisted by Rev. Bill Sanders, Bethel Baptist Church.Mrs. Smith died March 2 in the Crosbyton Hospital. She came to Dickens County in 1900 and had resided in Spur since 1942. She was a member of the Baptist Church. She is preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1970.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Louise Wright and Mrs. Alvis Bilberry, Spur; Mrs. G.W. Rogers, Rotan; one son, Lewis Ray Smith, Dumas; one sister, Mrs. Homer Hill, Spur and a brother, Luther Henderson, Lubbock; 9 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
Burial was in Spur Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur, March 11, 1976
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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