Clara Juliette "Judy" Smith

Clara Juliette “Judy” Smith, age 86, entered into her Heavenly home on December 14, 2014, in San Antonio, Texas. She was born on June 8, 1928, in Sulphur Bluff, in Hopkins County, Texas. She was the fifth child, and youngest daughter, of Tom and Nettie Hamilton. She grew up in a tenant-farmer family in East Texas, moving in her teens to the Texas Panhandle, surviving the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. In December, 1945, she greeted Horace G. “Red” Smith, a long-time family friend from Hopkins County, when he returned from WWII, and married him three months later, on March 29, 1946, in Wellington, Texas. They had been married for almost 67 years when Red Smith passed away on January 4, 2013.

Judy Smith is survived by her two sons, Jimmy Wayne Smith and his wife, Janet Smith, from College Station, Texas, and Thomas Noel “Tom” Smith and his wife, Kathy Smith, of San Antonio, Texas. She was grandmother to five granddaughters and two grandsons, and great-grandmother to five great-granddaughters and one great-grandson. The granddaughters and grandsons include Jimmy’s daughters, Christina Smith-Green (and husband Lance Green) and Charlene Smith; Janet’s son Justin Molina (and wife Leigh Ann Molina); Tom’s daughters Kyla Smith (deceased) and Kera Bell; and Kathy’s daughter Tara Reddy (and husband Sudhir Reddy) and son Brendan Haney (deceased). Her great-granddaughters include Christina’s daughter Caitlin, Kera’s daughters Lily and Lori, Tara’s daughter Leela, and Justin’s daughter Julia. Her great-grandson is Justin’s son Jacob. Her former daughter-in-law, Cynthia Ann Smith, is still a very close friend and considered by her to be family.

The funeral service for Judy Smith will be held at 9:30 am on Tuesday, December 23, 2014, at Sunset Northwest Funeral Home, 6321 Bandera Road, San Antonio, Texas. A graveside service and subsequent interment will be conducted at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery at 11:00 am the same day. Family viewing will be held from 6:00 - 8:00 pm on Monday, December 22, 2013, at the funeral home. Flowers are not requested by the family, but may be sent by those who wish to. Instead, the family requests that donations be made to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas, under the name of Mrs. Horace G. Smith. A link to their donation page is http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/MakeDonation.asp