Pegge Smith, Etoile, TX, formerly of Reliance, passed away Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 at Memorial Hospital in Nacogdoches, TX., following complications from a heart attack. She was 64 years old. Pegge was born to Albert and Anna Black-Stallman Jan.27, 1943. She attended Cooper School and Reliance Consolidated before moving to Farmington, NM where she married Marshall W. Smith. They had one son and two daughters.

In 1979, they went to work in the oilfields in Algeria, living at Palma de Mallorca and Bahrain, Spain and Saudi Arabia. They celebrated their 20^th anniversary in Paris and their 24^th in London before returning to Farmington in 1987.

In 1994, they moved onto their acreage at Etoile and adopted three of their grandchildren. She worked at Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, until developing an eye infection and was legally blind by 1998. A cornea transplant restored her vision by 2003.

Her last blog read, “I had a major heart attack in March of 2007, but recovered quickly. We are looking forward to the last of the kids graduating in 2008 and we can start doing some traveling.”

She is survived by her husband, Fort Worth, TX;  two daughters, Marsha Al Sisi, Las Vegas NV and Michele Bradberry, Dallas, TX.; six grandchildren: Marshall Jose, Joseph and Ines Smith, all at Fort Worth; Naquita, Sami and Salmon Al Sisi, all in Bahrain; three  sisters: Frances King (OK), Barbara Speck (SD) and Sandy Foxwell (NM), and one brother, Eddie Stallman, TX.

Her son, Marshall W. Jr., and her parents preceded her in death.
Her cremains will be returned to SD at a later date.

Her sudden passing has left horrible holes in our hearts and we miss her everyday.