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Marvelle Bryan Smith

1928 - 2010

BORN

1928

DIED

2010

Marvelle Smith Obituary

Marvelle Bryan Smith, 81, passed away Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. Funeral: 2 p.m. Wednesday at Richland Hills Church of Christ. Burial: Bluebonnet Hills Memorial Park. Visitation: Noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the church. She was born Nov. 25, 1928, in Mangum, Okla. She was raised in Tulsa, Okla., and married Bill Bryan and moved to Hurst where they raised four daughters. After Bill's passing she met and married Orville Smith. She was preceded in death by her husbands, William Clarence Bryan and Orville J. Smith; parents, Ava Jewel and Roy Edwin Johnson; grandparents, Allen and Edna Overstreet; and grandson, Joshua. Survivors: Daughters, Melody, Penny, Robin and April; grandchildren, Ashley, Austin, Brandon, Michael; and cousin, Milton Johnson.

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Published by Star-Telegram on Oct. 19, 2010.

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