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Submitted: 12/26/21 • Approved: 12/26/21 • Last Updated: 12/29/21 • R475590-G475590-S3
September 9, 1915-March 26, 1999
Daughter
When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there.
*Photo/Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Edith A. Smith, 83, a former Wheeler resident, died Friday, March 26, 1999. Graveside services were at 11 a.m. Monday at Wheeler Cemetery in Wheeler with Dr. Howard Batson, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Amarillo, officiating. Burial was under the direction of Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors of Amarillo.
Mrs. Smith was born and raised at Wheeler, graduating salutatorian from Wheeler High School. She held both a bachelor's and a master's degree from West Texas State Teachers College. She had been an Amarillo resident for the past 51 years.
She taught school at Darrouzett, Lovington, Horace Mann, Palo Duro and Tascosa High School. She was the first English coordinator at Region 16 PESO and retired as coordinator of English for Amarillo School District in 1978.
She served on the state textbook committee and belonged to First Baptist Church. She was reactional director for the USO-Red Cross during World War II.
Survivors include a daughter, Nell Prowell of Amarillo; four sisters, Vergie Nelle Guynes of Borger, Gertrude Lilly Green of Wichita Falls, Robbie Joan Thornberry of Claude and Barbara Jean Bates of Amarillo; two grandchildren and two-great-grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 27, 1999)
Contributed on 12/26/21
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