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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Pansy Lou

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Smith

Mar 30, 1924 — Mar 22, 2014

Obituary

Funeral service for Pansy Lou Smith, 89, Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Tom Willoughby officiating. Mrs. Smith died Saturday, March 22, 2014 in Lawton. Burial will be in Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, under the direction of the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. Mrs. Smith was born March 30, 1924 in Seminole, Texas, to John Henry and Maudie (Bowman) Pierce. She grew up in Marlow, Oklahoma, and was a 1942 graduate of Marlow High School. She married Lenwood "Smitty" Smith on May 3, 1942 at Duncan. He preceded her in death on October 13, 2008. She and her husband spent their married life in Fort Devens, Massachusetts; Columbia, South Carolina, Schwabisch Hall, Germany; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Tokyo, Japan; and Lawton, where her husband retired from the Army. She was employed as a financial secretary by Lawton Public Schools until her retirement in 1981 after 13 years of service. She was a member of the Comanche County and Oklahoma Retired Educators Association, Knife and Fork Club and Lawton Book and Play Review Club. She volunteered as leader for Boy Scouts of America and Camp Fire Girls, held numerous offices in the PTA and volunteered for Mobile Meals for several years. She was a member of the Lawton-Fort Sill Church Women United and has been a deacon and elder at First Presbyterian Church. She has been active in the Presbyterian Women's Work holding various offices and serving as mission chairperson for the Lydia Circle and was also a member of the Builders Sunday school at the church. She was a devoted grandmother and had a very special relationship with each of her grandchildren. She is survived by a son and daughter in law, Larry and Sherry Smith, Chapin, South Carolina; two daughters and sons in law, Diane and Mike Henry, Austin, Texas, and Debra and Ron Watts, Lawton; five grandchildren, Leslie Hancock and husband Tommy, Isle of Palms, South Carolina, Allison Alford and husband Jon, Austin, Texas, Megan Stein and husband Travis and Lacey Watts and fiancé Ryan Sablotny, all of Dallas, Texas, and Lauren Watts, Charleston, South Carolina; four great grandchildren, Braden Hancock, Becca Tomlinson and husband Russ, Michael Lenwood Alford and Henry Forrester Stein; one great great grandson, Everett Tomlinson. Her parents, a son, Leland Dale Smith, and seven siblings preceded her in death. Memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 1302 SW A Avenue, Lawton OK 73501.

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