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Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma
Thursday, June 26, 1969

Kathleen Smith Dies Wednesday

Mrs. Kathleen Ruby Smith, 51, of 624 S. Walnut, was found dead late Wednesday afternoon at the home of her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Cumbey, 1402 E. 62nd St., Tulsa.

Officials said a hose had been hooked to a car exhaust and extended through a window and the engine turned on. A note was found.

Mrs. Smith was the widow of Richard E. Smith, who with their son, Richard Dean Smith, was drowned in a fishing mishap at Lake Sahoma in 1959.

She had lived in this area all her life and was employed as a nurses aid at St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa.

Survivors are a son, Gary, 704 S. Walnut; a daughter, Mrs. Wilma Hart, 624 S. Walnut; her mother, Mrs. Cumbey; four grandchildren; three brothers, Noel Cumbey, Pineville, Okla.; June Cumbey, Rt. 1, Mounds, Okla.; Jack Cumbey, San Diego, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Edna Herring, Rt. 2 Mounds.

Funeral services will be at 2 pm Friday at Ridgeway Baptist church with the Rev. Ray Wells officiating. Interment will be in South Heights Cemetery under direction of Owen Funeral Home.

South Heights Cemetery, Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma

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