Christine Lacy Smith

Visitation will be held at Kingwood Funeral Home on Thursday, October 27, 2016, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. In keeping with Chris’ Southern hospitality, light refreshments will be served.

Funeral services will be at Kingwood Funeral Home in Kingwood, Texas Friday, October 28, 2016, at 10:30 a.m., with Pastor Joe Kearse of Huffman Church officiating. The family sincerely apologizes for the morning funeral. However, in keeping with her wishes, the family will travel immediately thereafter to Louisiana to bury Chris next to her late husband, Doy C. Smith, and among her many Harper, Lacy, and McDonald relatives. Burial will be at Shiloh Cemetery near her family farm near Sugartown, Louisiana. Hixson’s Funeral Home of DeRidder, Louisiana is handling local Louisiana arrangements. Graveside burial at Shiloh is anticipated to be on Friday, Oct. 28, at 5:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, friends or family who feel so moved are requested to donate to one of the following in Chris’ name:

-- Chris Smith Memorial Fund, www.alz.org/TRR/Events/Tributes

--Alzheimer's Association Houston & Southeast Texas

6055 S Loop East at Long Drive, Houston, TX 77087

--Huffman Church, @ http://huffmanchurch.com

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Chris was born in Port Arthur, Texas to W. A. (“Albert”) and Irene Lacy on September 16, 1934. She went to high school in Hardin, Texas, where she was valedictorian of her class. She attended the University of Texas at Austin. Chris married Doy Smith of DeRidder, Louisiana, after he returned home from the front lines of the Korean War. They met in church. Chris was well into her first date with Doy when she realized that of the “bunch of us going out after church to eat,” Doy had really only invited Chris.

They soon married, and Chris became the trailing spouse of a Halliburton Company husband. They lived in various locations in Louisiana and Mississippi until the family went overseas in 1962. Over the next two decades, the Smiths lived in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina; Salvador, Brazil; Las Palmas, Canary Islands; and returned to Salvador, Brazil. While overseas, Chris ran the household and raised her family. During her years in Brazil, along with her best friend, Gloria Lewis (now of West Covina, California), the women raised money for various charitable causes, including local Brazilian evangelical churches, and the Bahia Leper Colony.

Chris returned to Humble in the mid-1970’s. Her kids in college and junior high, she attended North Harris County College, and became a licensed realtor and broker. Chris was an active realtor in the Humble, Texas area for the next forty years. She was a devoted evangelical Christian her entire life, and active member of Huffman Church. She played piano, and was an amazing seamstress and master quilter. Chris had an avid interest in family history and genealogy. She was a devoted mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend. Chris never met a stranger or turned away someone in need. The epitome of Southern hospitality, her food (especially her desserts) was legendary. Chris was was her happiest when spending time with a house full of family and friends, laughing, talking, and eating her cooking; or at the family farm in Sugartown, Louisiana.

Chris lived her last year at Silverado, Kingwood. She and the family are deeply grateful for the care and kindness of its staff; most especially the caregivers, nursing, activities, and kitchen staff, and her favorite nurse and surrogate grand-nephew, Casey Todd.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Doy; her parents Irene and Albert; brothers Curtis, A.W, and Clarence Lacy; and sister Madeline Lacy.

Chris is survived by her sister Glory Lewis and brother Don Lacy, both of Magnolia, Texas; daughter Denice Smith of Houston; son and daughter-in-law Nathan and Sheila Smith of New Caney; daughter and son-in-law Danna and Erik Sundet of Streetsboro, Ohio; grandson David Sundet of Killeen; grandson and grand-daughter-in-law Stephen and Rachel Sundet of Nederland; grandson and granddaughter Curtis and Kristen Sundet of Streetsboro; grandson and granddaughter Blair and Beau Klinefelter, and great-grandchildren Bane and Ava Klinefelter of Kingwood; grandson and grand-daughter-in-law, Charles and Deborah Griggs of Cleveland, Texas; grandson and grand-daughter-in-law, Bobby and Lisa Griggs, and great-grandchildren Trent, Zachary, Eric, Amelia, and Natalie Griggs of Austin; her best friend Gloria Lewis of West Covina, California; her next-door neighbors of four decades, Bill and Reba Watson of Humble; her faithful hairdresser of many years, Suzanne Woodrome; and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, relatives, neighbors, and close friends.