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Submitted: 1/17/16 • Approved: 1/18/16 • Last Updated: 1/21/16 • R1117619-G1117619-S3
March 30, 1942 - March 6, 2012
Mary Francis (Smith) Branscum Mitchell, 69, of Mountain View entered into rest on March 6, 2012 in Mountain View.
Mary Francis was born March 30, 1942 in Big Flat, Arkansas to Delbert and Clara Evelyn (Hamby) Smith. She told all her family and friends, she loved Jesus. She was a member of Fifty Six Missionary Baptist Church in Fifty Six. She retired from the Stone County Hospital Dietary Unit. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister.
Mary is survived by three sons, Randel Branscum and wife Brenda of Fifty Six, David Branscum and wife Shanna of Ponca City, OK and Gary Branscum and wife Tammy of Mtn. View; two daughters, Lisa Steele and husband Billy of Fifty Six and Shandle Hacker and husband David of Sage, Ark.; Step-daughter, Sheila Mitchell of Fairfield Bay; eight grandchildren, Gary Branscum, Jr. and wife Kadie, Kyle Branscum, Kayla, Cody and Tailer Steele, Trey and Layne Branscum and Amara Hacker; ten great-grandchildren, Hope, Faith, Calvin, Terence and Angelina Branscum, Alexis, Makinley and Skylar Branscum and Gabriel and Jalynne Dayberry; sister, Pat Deatherage and husband Junior of Fifty Six; two brothers, Bobby Smith and wife Dianne of Mtn. View and Roger Smith and wife Cheryl of Frisco, Texas and a host of other loving relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Delbert and Clara Smith; husbands, Hershel Branscum and Ernest Mitchell; two grandchildren, Terence and Brandon Branscum, a sister, Kay Wallace and a brother Gene Smith.
She will be dearly missed by all who knew her, but will look forward to meeting with her again.
Visitation is 6 – 8 p.m., Thursday, March 8, 2012 at Roller Crouch Chapel, Mountain View.
Funeral service is 10 a.m., Friday, March 9, 2012 at Fifty Six Missionary Baptist Church, Fifty Six, Arkansas with Bro. Robb Arnold and Bro. Leon Barns officiating and interment in Branscum Cemetery, Culp Community, near Calico Rock. Pallbearers are Gary Branscum, Jr., Trey Branscum, Kyle Branscum, Cody Steele, Rex Wallace and Andy Smith. Honorary pallbearers are Stone County Nursing and Rehab Staff, Dr. Andy, Jimmy Mitchell, Jeff Mitchell, Channing Lowery, Cody Thomas, Joey Thomas and JR Deatherage.
Roller Crouch Funeral Home, Mountain View is in charge of the arrangements.
Contributed on 1/17/16 by sandhollow
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