Posted By:	Wayne Loden
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	Subject:	Obit: Mattie Jewel Thornton Smith
	Post Date:	April 22, 2004 at 06:45:02
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ms/messages/15203.html
	Forum:	Mississippi Genealogy Forum
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Mattie Jewel Thornton Smith, 85, Saltillo, Miss., died April 21, 2004 at the NMMC in Tupelo. She was a native of Tippah County. She was a member of East Heights Baptist Church. Services were in the Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues with burial in Tippah Memorial Gardens. Survivors include her husband of 67 years, Fred A. Smith of Saltillo. She was preceded in death by her parents, Webb and Ossie Witt Thornton; three sisters, Mary Vance "Bill" Bullock, Bernice Smith and Hazel Griffen; and a brother, Noel Thornton.