Jerline (Cooper) Smith

DAILE FREEMAN AND FANNIE WERE THE PROUD PARENTS OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN, 9 BOYS AND 4
GIRLS. ON JULY 31, 1933 THE 3RD DAUGHTER OUT OF THIRTEEN SIBLINGS WAS BORN. SHE ATTENDED
LANGVIEW SCHOOL ON THE OUTSIDE OF ENNIS TX.
SHE WAS A RUTHLESS LITTLE TOM GIRL. SHE BASICALLLY  LIVE ON THE STREET ALL HER LIFE. SHE WASN’T
AFRAID OF A FIGHT.
SHE ATTENDED SEVERAL CHURCHES AROUND TOWN.
SHE WOULD THROW ROCKS UP AND DOWN THE STREET AT MELVIN SMITH, THEY BECAME
SWEETHEARTS THEN SOON MARRIED DECEMBER 29,1956. THEY HAD ONE SON MELVIN LONNIE SMITH.
JERLINE BECAME A DEVOTED HOUSEWIFE.

EVERYONE KNEW AND LOVED JERLINE SMITH AKA  AUNT NELLY, SHE LOVED TO PLAY SCRATCH OFFS. IF
YOU WENT BY THE HOUSE, SHE WOULD TELL YOU TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE SOMETHING TO DRINK. YOU
COULDN’T LEAVE HER HOUSE WITHOUT DRINKING A BIG RED WITH HER.
BEFORE HER HEALTH STARTED DECLINING, SHE LOVED FOR YOU TO READ BIBLE SCRIPTURES AND SING
GOSPEL SONGS.
SHE WAS THE LAST OF HER SIBLINGS LEFT WHEN GOD CALLED HER HOME.
SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER MOTHER AND FATHER AND 12 SIBLINGS.

JERLINE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORIES TO MELVIN SMITH; HER DEVOTED HUSBAND OF 65 YEARS.
ONE SON WHOM SHE LOVED DEARLY; MELVIN LONNIE SMITH. ONE BROTHER-IN-LAW; WALLACE SMITH3

(KAREN AKA BABY) TWO GRANDSONS; RODRICK MUNSON (VICTORIA), DIETRICH KIRVIN. 5
GREATGRAND KIDS; ZOE MUNSON, RODRICK MUNSON II, ALEXIS MITCHELL, DYZMEN BRYANT,
MADISON WHITE. 3 NIECES; ROMONIA, ANGIE AND PHYLIS. 5 NEPHEWS AND A HOST OF OTHER NIECES, NEPHEWS, LOVES ONES AND FRIENDS.

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