Coy C. Smith

Elk City Daily News

July 13, 1992

Submitted by: Jean Whiteneck

Funeral services for Coy C. Smith will be conducted Wed. at 2:30 p.m. in the Martin Funeral Chapel with Rev. Billy Wheeler officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home.

Mr. Smith was born March 27, 1914 in Ambrose, Tex, and died Saturday at the age of 78. He moved with his family to a farm near Berlin from Texas. After five years they moved to Durham. He was married to Altie Duke on May 9, 1934 in Durham where they established their home. In 1939 they moved to a farm near Hammon.

They moved to several places in Oklahoma before establishing their home in Dumas,TX, in 1963 where they farmed until Coy's retirement in 1980. They moved back to Elk City where they have lived since. He was a member of the Prairie View Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Altie of the Elk City home. Also 2 children: Coy Gene Smith and Jackie J. Leonard, both of Elk City. Four sisters: Opal Hayworth and Effie Biggs, both of Denver and Nadean Drake and Frankie Weatherford, both of Mesa, Ariz.; 5 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

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