March 24, 1935 - August 18, 2021
The services celebrating and honoring the life of Roy C. Smith Jr, 86, of Enid, will be held 10:00 A.M. Friday August 27, 2021 in the Central Christian Church with Pastor Tom Stanley officiating. Burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Roy was born to Roy Carl Smith and Nettie Irene (Newcomb) on March 24, 1935 in Rodger Mills County Oklahoma on the family farm. He was known to his family as Bud and Smitty to his friends. He passed from this life and gained his angel wings August 18, 2021.
Roy graduated from Hammon High School as Valedictorian of his class in 1954. He attended college at Oklahoma State University for a couple of years. He left school to go to work in the oilfield when he was drafted into the Army and stationed in Hawaii for two years.
He spent his younger adult years in south Texas as a mud engineer at Baroid Industries where he met and married Patricia A Whittle in 1960. He went on to work for Celanese at Bishop, TX as a plant unit supervisor and was hand-picked along with one of his co-workers to go to Japan and help build and start a plastics plant where he stayed for three months.
In 1973, he accepted a position as unit supervisor with Farmland Industries to help build the new nitrogen plant east of Enid. Roy would take the boy scouts camping, attend the girl scouts father daughter activities, coach the little league and school games, loved camping, fishing, hunting and of all things laundry. Only man we know of that not only color coordinated his clothes in his closet by the color wheel but also folded his socks.
In 1980 he married Dolores (Couch) and they made their home in the Meadows in Enid. They were members of Central Christian Church and loved the Lord and worshiping with their fellow members. They both were Emmaus and were dedicated to their church family. Roy was a loving father, husband and teacher.
Roy went on to work for Farmland Industries (Koch Industries) collectively until he was 80 years old. He briefly retired and learned to lay tile while working as a tile laborer. He went on to tile his own kitchen, bathrooms and entry way. He did a lot of tile work at his church as well. He was a perfectionist and did beautiful work. All of us that knew him can attest that he never got in a hurry to do anything and would not quit until the job was finished right. Needless to say, he had one upset wife for about three years while he marbled her bathroom. He finished out his career with what is now Koch Industries teaching the new employees. He loved his work and his work family. He was a mentor to those who worked with him and well respected. As once told to us by a fellow employee, there wasn’t a nut, bolt, or pipe that he didn’t know of or where it was located in the nitrogen plant.
Roy is survived by one sister Rebecca Smith, his son John D Smith wife Janette, daughter Janice D Warfield husband Scott, son Ronald Jay Russell; sister in law Vivian R. Smith, nephew Elmer J. Flick, nieces Mary Lynn Graybill, Waletta Newton and Dawn Tisdale; and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Roy was preceded in death by his wife Dolores, parents Roy C and Nettie Smith, sister Maisie Flick, brother John J Smith and his grandson, Braylin Russell.
Memorials can be made to Central Christian Church with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
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