VELMA SMITH

May 09, 2018

LAMAR- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Daniel Funeral Home for Velma Lucile Engle Anderson Smith, 99, who died Friday, April 27, 2018. Burial will be in Nashville Cemetery.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include five children, Andrea, Jerry, Terry, Deborah and Patricia; 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband of nearly 64 years, Myron E. Smith, who died from emphysema complications, as well as three of their children.

Mrs. Smith was born July 27, 1918 and grew up in Missouri where she married her first husband that died from tuberculosis complications in 1942. She remarried approximately two years later to her childhood sweetheart, Myron Smith, who was in the Army and stationed in the Hawaiian Islands as a result of Pearl Harbor. They came to Barstow, Calif. in the 1950s and homesteaded in Hinkley, Calif.

Her life was lived remarkably close to her family and her Lord Jesus. She spent the last five years of her life living with her oldest daughter and her husband. She had a stroke in December of 2016 and was bedridden for 15 months.



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