Essie Evelyn Bagwell Smith

(December 27, 1913 ~ May 5, 1998)

Essie, daughter of Arbie Ishom Bagwell and Eddie Everline Mooty, married to Charles Wesley Smith and buried in Bradshaw Cemetery, Bradshaw, Taylor County, Texas.

BRADSHAW -- Essie Smith, 84, died Tuesday in a San Marcos hospital.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Winters Funeral Home Chapel in Winters with Paige Baize officiating. Burial will be in Bradshaw Cemetery.

Mrs. Smith was born in Weatherford and moved to Bradshaw at age four. She was a homemaker. She was a Methodist and was the widow of C.W. Smith, whom she married in 1933 in Winters.

Survivors include three daughters, Betty Newton and Debbye Smith, both of Anchorage, Alaska, and Patty Smith of San Marcos; one brother, Robert A. Bagwell of Robert Lee; one sister, Cin Orr of Sweetwater; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Texas) - Thu, May 7, 1998