Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, January 3, 1972

Tommy Ray Smith

LEESVILLE -- Funeral services for Tommy Ray Smith, 23, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Hixson Funeral Home with the Rev. M. C. Green officiating. Burial will be in the Castor Cemetery.

Mr. Smith died Saturday in the Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport following a long illness.

Survivors include his widow; two sons, Tommy Ray Smith Jr. and Bobby Ray Smith, both of Leesville; a daughter, Julie Ann Smith of Leesville; six brothers, Jerome Smith of Shreveport, Douglas Smith of Rock Island, Ill., Jerry Smith of Leesville, Edwin Lam of Barto, Fla., Roy Lam and William Lam both of Harrisonburg, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Anita Gail Lam of Harrisonburg, and Wilmer Smith of Shreveport; his father, Levi Smith of Shreveport; his grandmother, Mrs. Zilfie Dardon of Hornbeck.