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Park Lawn Funeral Home - Kansas CityThelma Smith Obituary
Thelma Mae Smith passed away on November 2, 2025, in Houston, Texas, at The Shores at Cedar Lake.
She was born September 16, 1927, in Paola, Kansas.
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