BASIL DEAN SMITH

PUXICO -- Basil Dean Smith, 69, of Puxico died Friday, May 17, 1996, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff.

He was born June 11, 1926, in Jackson, Mich., to Wilbur and Estella Burlison Smith.

He married Grace Lynch in Piggott, Ark., on Spet. 7, 1949. She survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Norma Dean Sikon of South Lyon, Mich., and Grace Elizabeth Berryman of White Lake, Mich.; a brother, Norman Smith of Arkansas; a sister, Linda Vanover of St. Louis; and five grandchildren.

Smith was retired after 33 years of service at General Motors in Michigan. He also was a 32nd-degree Mason.

Graveside service will be at Brown Cemetery near Puxico today at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Wiley McGhee officiating.

Watkins & Sons Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.