Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Saturday, March 17, 1984

Delton R. Smelley

BRADLEY, ARK.

Services for Mr. Delton R. Smelley, 68, of Bradley, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday March 17 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, Ark. The Rev. Tom Stevens will officiate. Burial: Old Union Cemetery at Sims, Texas.

Mr. Smelley, a retired farmer, died Thursday March 15, 1984, at a Magnolia, Ark. nursing home after a short illness. He was born March 21, 1915 in Bienville Parish, La.

He is survived by two sons, John Smelley of Bradley and Lonnie Smelley of Houston, Texas; three daughters, Linda Wiggins of Conroe, La., Doris Wher of Houston, Texas and Kathy Hartsfield of Shreveport, La.; three brothers, Oron Smelley, Curtis Smelley and Billy Smelley, of Ruston, La.; eleven grandchildren.