Janie Altie Lavera "Bank" Smith

Elk City News Newspaper Sunday

Oct. 3, 2004; pg 2; Sec. A

Submitted by: Jean Whiteneck

Funeral services for Bank Smith will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. from the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. Billy Wheeler officiating. Interment will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.

Janie Altie Lavera "Bank" Smith was born June 12, 1917, at Durham to James Allen Duke and Martha Author and died Thurs. (Sept. 30, 2004) at the age of 87.

She was married to Coy C. Smith on May 9, 1934 at Durham. They established their home in Durham and then in 1939 moved to a farm near Hammon. They lived in several places in Oklahoma until 1963 when they moved to Dumas, Texas where they lived until 1980 when they moved to Elk City. Bank worked at TG&Y and S&H Green Stamp Stores during her working career.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Coy C. Smith in 1992; her parents; and seven brothers and sisters.

Survivors include two children, Coy Gene Smith and wife, Bobbie of Elk City and Jackie Leonard of Elk City; one sister, Jackie Wright of Corning, Arkansas; 12 grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; and seven great-great grandchildren.

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