© The Amarillo Globe-News
9 December 2001

ELK CITY, Okla. - Mary Flick Smith, 98, died Friday, Dec. 7, 2001.
 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Martin's Funeral Chapel of Elk City with the Rev. David Flick, Mrs. Smith's great-nephew, officiating.

Burial will be in Red Hill Cemetery at Hammon.

Mrs. Smith was born in Newton Stuart, Ind., on Oct. 30, 1903, to Amanda and Jacob Flick. She was the fourth of 11 children. In order to have more land to farm, her father moved the family to the Indian Territory in 1907, a month before it became the state of Oklahoma.
 

After graduating from Hammon Oklahoma High School, she attended Southwestern State Normal School in Weatherford. She taught school for a time in Oklahoma before marrying. She married Jasper Smith on May 21, 1927, and moved to the Phillips, Texas, area where she lived until 1996.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Lawrence Edward Smith; three sisters; and three brothers.

Survivors include three daughters, Colleen Lloyd of Charlotte, N.C., Doris Morland of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Sharlene Gaither and husband, Bill, of Richardson, Texas; a brother, George Flick; three sisters, Lois Hubbard, Lila Rowell and Bea Odom; two sisters-in-law, Velma Flick and Vivian Flick; seven grandchildren, Mike Lloyd, Scott Lloyd, Lisa Morland Kitson, Mark Morland, Karla Gaither Iacampo, Karen Gaither and Mike Gaither; and seven great-grandchildren, Bill Lloyd, Jeff Lloyd, Jason Lloyd, Andrea Iacampo, Christina Iacampo, Michelle Iacampo and Madeline Morland.