A memorial service for Coleita Helen Smith Morris will be held 2:00 PM, Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the First United Methodist Church of Brownwood with Dr. Don Scroggs officiating. Visitation will be from 3:00 PM to 5:00 pm, Saturday at Davis-Morris Funeral Home, 800 Center Ave., Brownwood.
Colieta was the daughter of Will C. and Floy Jane (Greenstreet) Smith, born March 15, 1925, in Brownwood.
She was a 1942 graduate of Brownwood High School and was chosen “ Coming Home Queen” in 1992. She attended Daniel Baker College as a voice student of Miss Mavis Douglas.
Coleita was married to Wendell Phillip Morris on June 10, 1946, and two daughters were born to this marriage.
She worked for the U.S. Government for 35 years at the Draft Board and the Soil Conservation Service. She also worked as the secretary for the Brownwood District, United Methodist Church, and secretary to the Pecan Bayou Soil and Water Conservation District for 20 years. Her life was one of service to others.Coleita had been a member of the Woman’s Club of Brownwood, the Rotary Anns Club, the United Methodist Women of First United Methodist Church and served on the board of directors of the Brownwood Community Cultural Affairs Commission. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Brownwood her entire life working with children’s departments, youth programs and greeting people in the foyer of the church. She was a founding member of the Brewer Sunday School class and later in life, a member of the Peggy Boone Bible Class.
She is survived by her daughter, Jane Elizabeth, and husband, Rynn Truett, of Idalou, and daughter, Mariann, and husband, Rex Tackett, of Brownwood; two grandsons, Blake Truett, and Kent Truett, and fiancé, Cheryl Faneca, of Lubbock; one step-granddaughter, Teresa Zimmerman and her two sons, Chase and Jacob of Round Rock, and one step-grandson, Jimmy Tackett, of San Antonio.
Coleita was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, Wendell P. Morris, her parents and her brothers Paul Smith of Brownwood and Robert Glenn Smith who was killed in 1943 during WWII.
Memorial gifts may be made to First United Methodist Church, 2500 Eleventh Street, Brownwood, TX 76801. Condolences for the family may be left at www.davismorrisfuneralhome.com.
