Photos courtesy of Tresmond Scott
 

Woodworth Smith, Sr.

Woodworth Smith

Woodworth Smith, 90, passed away Sunday, July 30, at his home in Bay City. Survivors include; wife, Mrs. Leama Smith; 4 daughters, Mrs. Mary Walls of Santa Barbara, Calif., Delcenia Smith, Mrs. Sallie Mayfield, Bay City; 1 step-daughter, Jessie Mae Thomas of Waco; 3 sons, Woodworth Smith Jr. of San Diego, Calif., Baker Smith of Oklahoma City and Robbie Smith of Whidby Island, Washington; 1 brother, Baker Smith of Bay City; 2 sisters.  Mrs. Maria Robinson of Bay City and Mrs. Carolyn Davis of Santa Barbara, Calif.; 10 grandchildren, 5 great grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews.  Services will be held Thursday, August 3, at 2:30 pm at Mother Lion Baptist Church with Rev. L. R. James officiating.  Interment will be at Eastview Cemetery. Penn Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements.

The Daily Tribune, August 2, 1972                       Obituary courtesy of Faye Cunningham
 

Cheryl Rhynea Spiller

Cheryl Rhynea Spiller Brown

Funeral services for Cheryl Rhynea Spiller Brown, 35, of Bay City, are scheduled for 2 pm Saturday at Mother Zion Baptist Church in Bay City with the Rev. K. J. Griggs officiating.  Burial will follow in Eastview Cemetery in Bay City.

Visitation will be until 9 pm at the Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home Chapel in Bay City and from 1-2 pm Saturday at Mother Zion Baptist Church.

Mrs. Brown was born Dec. 10, 1958, in Bay City to Earl and Lillie Mae Woods Spiller and died Jan. 18, 1994, in Matagorda General Hospital in Bay City.

She was a member of the Baptist church.

Survivors include her husband, Charles Lee Brown of Bay City; three daughters, Saundra C. Preston, LaTasha Ralyne Brown and Shalandra Sheniece Brown, all of Bay City; a grandson, LeTevin Montre Wilcon of Bay City; her parents, Earl and Lillie Woods Spiller of Bay City; a brother, Earl G. Martin Spiller of Los Angeles, Calif.; father and mother-in-law, William Martin and Geraldine Brown Martin; a host of sisters and brother-in-law; five aunts, Hattie Woods Fields of Bay City, Irma Woods Thymes of Houston, Pearline Spiller Jackson of La Grange, Cleo Spiller Tucker of Houston and Naomi Spiller Harkless of Bay City; two uncles O. W. Woods Jr. of Dickerson, and Sam Woods of Houston; two great-aunts and great uncle, Catherine Fields Lewis, Evelyn Fields Thomas and Lawyer Fields Sr., all of Bay City; nieces and nephews and an extended family of cousins and other relatives.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Oscar Woods in 1981 and Ethel B. Lewis Woods in 1983, Tom Spiller in 1932, Virgie Fields Spiller Rhodes in 1970 and Elijah Rhodes in 1983 and by a brother and sister-in-law, Earl Spiller Jr. and Toni Petitt Spiller in 1991.

Pallbearers will be her nephews, cousins, and brothers-in-law. Honorary pallbearers are the Bay City High School Class of 1977.

Arrangements are with Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home in Bay City.

Daily Tribune, January 12, 1994                   Obituary courtesy of Faye Cunningham
 

Estella Spiller

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