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Anita B. Smith

Obituaries

December 14, 2021

Anita B. Smith

Anita Bradford Smith, 77, of Beaumont, Texas, was received into Heaven on Sunday, December 5, 2021. She was born on August 10, 1944, in Muroc, California, to the union of her parents, Spencer DeBrock “Pete” Bradford and Audrey Oleta Smith.

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