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Leona Arlene Smith Lunsford, Age 89 of Rowlett, formerly of Greenville, passed away on March 1, 2008 at Lake Pointe Medical Center in Rowlett. Services will be held on Wednesday, March 5 at 10:00 AM at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Royce Litchfield officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Wolfe City. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 PM on Tuesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Lunsford was born on July 29, 1918 to Lon Isaac and Minnie Wilson Smith in Cumby Texas.
On September 11, 1936, she married Bud Thomas Lunsford in Greenville, Texas. She was a master pattern maker and seamstress. She was a member of Highland Terrace Baptist Church and the Order of Eastern Star.
Her survivors include her daughter, SuLaine Callaway and husband, Wendell of Rockwall; brother, Lonny Smith of Cumby; Sisters Doris Canaan and Frances Freeman of Dallas and Margaret Rhodes of Dallas; Grandchildren, Heath Tow and wife, Sarah of St. Charles, Illinois, Colby Tow and fiance, Jeannette Bowes of Houston, and Kristin Walker and husband, Charles of Ennis; great-grandchildren, Delilah and Everleigh Tow of St. Charles, Illinois and Ruby Laine Walker of Ennis, Texas.
Her husband prededed her in death on February 20, 2002.
Pallbearers will be Wendell Callaway, Rod Allen, Heath Tow, Colby Tow, Charles Walker and Joe Tow.