Debbie Ann Benton Smith
ODESSA — Debbie Ann Benton Smith, age 44, a lifetime Odessa resident, passed
away after a lengthy illness at Medical Center Hospital on Dec. 31, 2001.
Services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, 2002, at Sunset Memorial
Chapel. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Debbie was born July 22, 1957, in Abilene. She came to Odessa when she was
only a year old. She was a 1974 graduate of Permian High School. She worked as
a pharmacy tech for Clinic Pharmacy. Debbie loved and enjoyed life.
Debbie was preceded in death by her grandparents, Clarence L. “Red” Shults and
Nancy Shults, who had raised her as their daughter.
Survivors include her husband of over nine years, Johnny M. Smith, Jr. of Odessa;
stepson, Kenneth Wayne Smith and his wife Deana of Bracken; step daughter
Jennifer Lynn Whitmore and her son Hunter Nathaniel Whitmore of New Braunfels;
mother-in-law, Wanda Smith of Odessa; a brother, Billy Roy Dickerson of Corpus
Christi and her mother, Alene Jones and husband Curtis of Andrews.
Services are under the care of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.