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Tommie Lucille Holmes Smith Catlin © Anderson-Burris Funeral Home 11-2012 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Tommie Lucille “Lucy” Holmes Smith Catlin, resident of Greenbriar Nursing Home of Enid, OK., passed away Sunday, November 11, 2012. She was 94.
Lucy was born on June 4, 1918 to Francis Melvin Holmes and Mineola “Minnie” McFadin Holmes in Jackson County, Okla.
Later married Ivan W. Smith Sr., where they maintained and operated several businesses in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 1962 she married the love of her life Dr. R. C. Catlin and soon became his dental assistant in Houston, Texas.
After the passing of Dr. Catlin in 1979, Lucy moved to Enid to be close to her “number one son”.
In 1981 and at age 63 she was instrumental in a low-cost dental clinic at the Garfield County Health Department. It was the first of its kind in Oklahoma.
In Lucy’s younger days she loved to go dancing, go to a good movie, loved to paint, draw, read, cook and sew.
She is survived by her two sons, Dr. Tom Smith and Ivan Smith Jr.; one daughter Phyllis Smith Bryan; nine grandchildren; ten great grandchildren; and four great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her two sisters, Hazel Little and Erie Henderson; three brothers, Lloyd Holmes, Wiley Wayne Holmes and Jack Holmes; and great granddaughter Danielle Christine Benitez.
A memorial service will be at 2:30 PM Friday at Memorial Park Mausoleum Chapel, with arrangements by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home and Crematory
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