Cecil Dewitt & Opal Marie (Kendall) Smith
Tombstone Photo
Silent Home Cemetery
Roll, Roger Mills County, OK

© Karen Harman

Cecil Dewitt Smith

© Elk Citian

28 Jan 2009

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Cecil Dewitt Smith were conducted Monday, January 26, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. from the First Baptist Church of Elk City with Dr. Russell Duck and Rev. Danny Ringer officiating. Interment was in the Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under direction of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.

Cecil Dewitt Smith was born September 16, 1915 at Carter, Oklahoma to W. Yeakley and Allie Brown Smith and passed away Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at the age of 93.

Cecil was in the first graduating class and the oldest surviving graduate of Crawford High School.

He was marrried to Opal Kendall on May 27, 1939 at Sayre, and she preceded him in death on August 24, 1997.

Cecil was married to Betty Williams Vermillion on May 24, 1998, at Elk City.

He moved to California in 1940 and spent 44 years with the Southern Pacific Railroad retiring in 1984 and returned to Elk City.

He was an active Gideon and spoke at many churches throughout the territory. He was a deacon at the First Baptist Church of Elk City and especially enjoyed the Tuesday Morning Prayer group and the Gideons' Saturday Morning Breakfast and also the Homebound Ministries of the First Baptist Church of Elk City.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Opal; his parents; three brothers, Melvin Smith, R. E. Smith and Everett Beaver; three sisters, Veta Fay Platt, Wanda Binkley and Effie Stuart; and a son-in-law, Timothy Womack.

Survivors include his wife, Betty Smith of the home; children, Rodney Smith and his children, Jackson and Emily of Rockville, Maryland; Kay Bridgewater and her husband C.C. and their children, Beau Bridgewater and his wife Katt, and Jeff and Chris Bridgewater of Castle Rock, Washington; Marilyn Thomas and her husband Mike of Yukon; Lois Degan and her husband Dale of Altus; Karen Womack of Katy, Texas; Kieffer Vermillion and his wife Brenda of Aledo, Texas; Naomi Wiles and her husband, Willie of Lawton; a brother, Jackie Dean Smith of Borger, Texas; a sister, Imogene Wilcox of Borger, Texas; two sisters-in-law, Murriell Beaver of Austin, Texas; Marjie Smith of Texas City, Texas; and numerous grand and great grandchildren.

The familly request memorials in Cecil's name be made to the Gideons.

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