SMITH, J. MELVIN - Benton County, Arkansas | J. MELVIN SMITH - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

J. Melvin SMITH

Buttram Chapel Cemetery
Benton County,
Arkansas

Melvin
May 9, 1914 - August 30, 2003

Berniece
February 27, 1917 - January 12, 1996

*Obituary
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Saturday, January 13, 1996

Berniece Smith

PEA RIDGE — Berniece Smith, 78, of Pea Ridge died Jan. 12, 1996, at Bentonville Manor Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 27, 1917, at Mount Judea to William Manson and Verna Mae Jones Criner. She was a graduate of Bentonville High School and was a homemaker. She was a member of Pea Ridge Church of Christ. She moved to Pea Ridge in 1945 from Kansas City. She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother; one sister.

Survivors include her husband, Melvin Smith of the home; three sons, John Melvin Smith Jr. of Phoenix, Ariz., Jerry Smith of Rogers and Jimmy Smith of Bentonville; two daughters, Janice Reddell of Pea Ridge and Jeannie Bruce of Gateway; two brothers, Bernard Criner of Bentonville and Burl Criner of Las Vegas, Nev.; three sisters, Laura Morgan of Rogers, Jean Ridley of Mobile, Ala., and Rosemary Williams of Bella Vista; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Buttram Chapel Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Sisco Funeral Home of Pea Ridge.

Married December 26, 1939

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