Marcia Vivian Long Smith

January 30, 1922 - December 03, 2013

Obituary

Marcia Long Smith was born in St. Joseph Missouri on January 30, 1922 and died on December 3, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She lived with her brother and grandparents in Graham, Missouri and later graduated from Shawnee Mission High School in Meriam, Kansas. She received a diploma from Felt and Terrant Comtometer School in Oklahoma City and worked in the accounting department of a steel company there at the beginning of WWII. She was married to Milton Edward Smith in Oklahoma City February 14, 1942. During WWII she was stationed with her husband at Fort Sill, Oklahoma as he served in the Army Field Artillery School and she worked in the accounting department of a dairy. After the war they moved to Tulsa in 1945. In Tulsa she worked in data entry for Safeway, Oklahoma Natural Gas, and Amoco Oil. After raising her three children she earned a BS degree in Early Childhood Education at Oklahoma State University and was employed by the Department of Family and Children Services. In her lifetime she volunteered in many capacities for the wellbeing of the Tulsa community. She served as a Sunday school teacher and youth minister at Sheridan Ave. Christian Church, Blue Bird and Cub Scout leader, Burbank PTA president and precinct judge for Tulsa elections. She also volunteered in the Doctor’s Hospital Auxiliary, Tulsa Boys Home, Gilcrease Elementary, and as a docent at the Gilcrease Art Museum. She has been an active member of All Souls Church since 1959, where she served as a Sunday school teacher, member of the Day Alliance and president of the Evening alliance. Marcia loved to travel. She visited all fifty states, Europe and Mexico, and cruised through the Panama Canal and Alaska. She was a founding member of a Tulsa garden club and enjoyed playing and listening to music, arranging flowers, playing bridge, reading, making ceramics, bowling, camping and walking. She is survived by her children and spouses, Scott and Tami Smith, Toni and Wayne Ogden,and Jennifer and Doug Turner; grandchildren and spouses, Christopher Hembree, Carla and Timothy Waterfield, Jeffrey Ogden and Amy Stuck, Christopher Schutz and Yvonne Creighton, and Brandon and Kimberly Schutz; great grandchildren Brittany Hembree, Sterling and Devon Waterfield, Alden and Abram Schutz, and Samuel and Campbell Schutz. She was preceded in death by her husband, Milton Smith and brother, Walter Long. Donations in Marcia’s memory may be made to Hospice of Green Country, 1120 S. Boston, Suite 200, Tulsa, OK 74119. Memorial service will be at All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria Ave., January 3, 2014 at 4:00pm.

Memorial Service

  • Date & Time: January 3, 2014 (4:00 PM)
  • Venue: All Souls Unitarian Church
  • Location: 2952 S. Peoria Tulsa, OK 74114 - (Get Directions)

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5 responses to Marcia Vivian Long Smith

  1. We will miss our Nana so much! She was such a special lady, love, Carla, Tim, Sterling & Devon.

  2. Aunt Toni, Uncle Wayne, Jeff, Carla and families, You all are in our thoughts and prayers at this sad time. Love you so much! Vicki and Rick Neville

  3. Toni and family, Sitting with mom Julia and Violet. May your memories give you comfort and peace. May you sense God's love for you. I know you will miss your mom but also know she is at peace with a new body. Keeping you in our prayers.

  4. Nita Spencer says:

    What a wonderful legacy. Had a full and fruitful life.

  5. S. Haney says:

    Please accept my sincere sympathy in the loss of your mother/grandmother. May your cherished memories and the warmth of family and friends help ease the pain of your loss. God is the source of all comfort (2Cor.1:3,4) and he gives you the comfort and strength you need during your time of grief. The scriptures tell us that soon the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out (John 5:28,29). Re- flecting on God's word, the Bible, and his promise of a resurrection give us an excellent hope for the future.

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