Location: H-Garrett

Born: August 20, 1905 Bowie, Montague County, Texas

Died: January 31, 1985 Waco, McLennan County, Texas

Wife of Otis (Toby) Smith

Parents:
John Jackson Messer (1875 – 1943)
Stella Messimer Messer (1886 – 1963)

Spouse:
Otis Smith (1889 – 1971)

Mrs. Mossie Smith, 79, of Waco died Thursday evening at a local hospital.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Wilkirson-Hatch Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev. Terry Nelson officiating. Burial will be at China Spring Cemetery.

Mrs. Smith was born Aug. 20, 1905, in Bowie. She had lived in the China Spring area since 1921. She was married to Otis (Toby) Smith who died in 1971.

She was a member of China Spring United Methodist Church and the auxiliaries of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans.

Survivors include two sons, B. Jack Smith of Waco and Bobby D. Smith of Killeen; three sisters, Mrs. G.W. Hicks of Clarendon, Mrs. Lucille Gray of Shamrock and Mrs. John Taylor of Bedford; one brother, Leon Messer of Cuba, NM; 12 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.