Floyd "Bud Smitty" Smith

© Cheyenne Star

01 Apr 1999

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Floyd "Bud Smitty" Smith passed away on Saturday, March 27, 1999 at Amarillo, Texas.

Services were at 2:00 p.m at Carmichael-Whatley Colonial Chapel with Rev. Red Palmer, pastor of Carpenter's Church and Rev. Lonny Robbins, pastor of Trinity Fellowship, officiating.

Burial in the Memory Gardens Cemetery under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors.

Floyd was born March 23, 1922 in Strong City, Oklahoma.

He joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 serving in World War II. He was honorably discharged in 1945.

On October 16, 1946 he married Bernice Beals at Wheeler, Texas.

They moved to Pampa in 1951 from Cheyenne, Oklahoma.

He was a contractor at Celanese and did bridge work for the Santa Fe Railroad. In 1970 he went to work for the city of Pampa in the parks department retiring in 1988.

He was a member of Carpenter's Church.

He is survived by his wife, Bernice Smith of the home; one son, Tommy Smith of Pampa; two daughters, Therisa Teakell and Carolyn Jacobs, both of Pampa; one brother, Gordon Smith of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; two sisters, Ruby Woods of Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma; and June Scriner of Reydon, Oklahoma; eight grandchildren; three great grandchildren and numerous friends.