Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
December 31, 1957, page 28

Early Resident Is Dead at 74; Funeral Today
Rites for D.W. Smithson, 74, of 1629 S Bryan, will be at ? p.m. Tuesday in the Memory chapel of Hunter funeral home. Burial will be at Carney.
Smithson, a pioneer Oklahoma resident, died Monday in Mercy hospital. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage a week ago.
Born in Gatewood, Mo, Smithson came to Oklahoma about 50 years ago, settling in Carney. He came to Oklahoma City in 193_.

Smithson was a retired employee (sic) of the Phillips Petroleum Co. He had been with that company about 2? years. He was a member of the Del City Church of Christ.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Belle Smithson, of the home; four daughters, Mrs. John Rowe, Shidler; Mrs. Lewis Kentner, 1612 NW 41; Mrs. W.M. Anderson, Shawnee, and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor, Caney, Kan.; a son Leo, Phillips, Texas; a brother, Feth, and two sisters, Mrs. Nora Pulliam and Mrs. Lem Pulliam, all of Donithan, Mo., 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.





Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
October 11, 1962, page 42
MRS. D.W. Smithson
Services for Mrs. D.W. Lucy Belle Smithson, 76, of 1629 S Bryan, Del City, who died Wednesday at her home, are pending with Hunter Funeral Home.
Mrs. Smithson, a native of Gatewood, Mo., moved to Oklahoma 50 years ago, settling at Carney. She moved to Oklahoma City in 1936. She was a member of Del City Church of Christ.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. John Rowe, Shidler; Mrs. Lewis Kentner, 3205 NW 67; Mrs. W.M. Anderson, Shawnee, and Mrs. Floyd Taylor, Caney, Kan.; a son, Leo, Borger, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. Ira Tinker, Mrs. Charlie Cline and Mrs. Otis Cline, all of Walnut Ridge, Ark., and a brother, Lee Peters, Doniphan, Mo.
Mrs. Smithson's husband, the late D.W. Smithson, was a longtime employee (sic) of Phillips Petroleum Co.