SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - Doris McCord Smothers passed away in San Antonio Friday, January 29, 1999 after a long illness. Born in Eugene Oregon, Doris was raised in Corpus Christi and maintained her home there until her death. Doris and her husband Jack founded Texas Laundry, Texas Linen Service, and Texas Shop Towel. These grew into Texas Industrial Laundries, the largest textile rental business in the American Southwest until its sale in 1987.
After the death of her husband in 1990, Doris dedicated herself to charitable work. She funded the J.E. Smothers Sr. Memorial Foundation to honor her late husband and the Jack and Doris Smothers Medical Foundation, which provides fellowships for interns at Driscoll Hospital in Corpus Christi. Doris' charitable endeavors were instrumental in placing the Columbus Fleet in Corpus Christi. Her keen interest in education resulted in her funding Jack and Doris Smothers Fellowhsip at our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, and the Travel Fund for graduate students of the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas A and M University. In honor of Doris and her husband Jack's many good works, the Smothers family has funded a Jack and Doris Series at the University of Texas Press.
Doris is survived by her son Bud Smothers and her daughter Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, both of San Antonio, five grandchildren Robert John Bruni of San Antonio, Katherine McCord Bruni of Boston, Jacqueline Bruni Chandler of Pipe Creek, Elizabeth Lamar Bruni of Dallas, and Natalia Bruni Weatherbie of Colorado Springs, and three great-granchildren Jonathan Christian Chandler, Justin Edward Bruni, and Travis Anthony Bruni, sister Kathleen McCord Simpson, Corpus Christi, TX.
Services Tuesday, February 2, 11:00 am Church of the Good Shepherd, Corpus Christi. Graveside at Seaside Memorial Cemtery will follow.
After the death of her husband in 1990, Doris dedicated herself to charitable work. She funded the J.E. Smothers Sr. Memorial Foundation to honor her late husband and the Jack and Doris Smothers Medical Foundation, which provides fellowships for interns at Driscoll Hospital in Corpus Christi. Doris' charitable endeavors were instrumental in placing the Columbus Fleet in Corpus Christi. Her keen interest in education resulted in her funding Jack and Doris Smothers Fellowhsip at our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, and the Travel Fund for graduate students of the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas A and M University. In honor of Doris and her husband Jack's many good works, the Smothers family has funded a Jack and Doris Series at the University of Texas Press.
Doris is survived by her son Bud Smothers and her daughter Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, both of San Antonio, five grandchildren Robert John Bruni of San Antonio, Katherine McCord Bruni of Boston, Jacqueline Bruni Chandler of Pipe Creek, Elizabeth Lamar Bruni of Dallas, and Natalia Bruni Weatherbie of Colorado Springs, and three great-granchildren Jonathan Christian Chandler, Justin Edward Bruni, and Travis Anthony Bruni, sister Kathleen McCord Simpson, Corpus Christi, TX.
Services Tuesday, February 2, 11:00 am Church of the Good Shepherd, Corpus Christi. Graveside at Seaside Memorial Cemtery will follow.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - Doris McCord Smothers passed away in San Antonio Friday, January 29, 1999 after a long illness. Born in Eugene Oregon, Doris was raised in Corpus Christi and maintained her home there until her death. Doris and her husband Jack founded Texas Laundry, Texas Linen Service, and Texas Shop Towel. These grew into Texas Industrial Laundries, the largest textile rental business in the American Southwest until its sale in 1987.
After the death of her husband in 1990, Doris dedicated herself to charitable work. She funded the J.E. Smothers Sr. Memorial Foundation to honor her late husband and the Jack and Doris Smothers Medical Foundation, which provides fellowships for interns at Driscoll Hospital in Corpus Christi. Doris' charitable endeavors were instrumental in placing the Columbus Fleet in Corpus Christi. Her keen interest in education resulted in her funding Jack and Doris Smothers Fellowhsip at our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, and the Travel Fund for graduate students of the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas A and M University. In honor of Doris and her husband Jack's many good works, the Smothers family has funded a Jack and Doris Series at the University of Texas Press.
Doris is survived by her son Bud Smothers and her daughter Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, both of San Antonio, five grandchildren Robert John Bruni of San Antonio, Katherine McCord Bruni of Boston, Jacqueline Bruni Chandler of Pipe Creek, Elizabeth Lamar Bruni of Dallas, and Natalia Bruni Weatherbie of Colorado Springs, and three great-granchildren Jonathan Christian Chandler, Justin Edward Bruni, and Travis Anthony Bruni, sister Kathleen McCord Simpson, Corpus Christi, TX.
Services Tuesday, February 2, 11:00 am Church of the Good Shepherd, Corpus Christi. Graveside at Seaside Memorial Cemtery will follow.
After the death of her husband in 1990, Doris dedicated herself to charitable work. She funded the J.E. Smothers Sr. Memorial Foundation to honor her late husband and the Jack and Doris Smothers Medical Foundation, which provides fellowships for interns at Driscoll Hospital in Corpus Christi. Doris' charitable endeavors were instrumental in placing the Columbus Fleet in Corpus Christi. Her keen interest in education resulted in her funding Jack and Doris Smothers Fellowhsip at our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, and the Travel Fund for graduate students of the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas A and M University. In honor of Doris and her husband Jack's many good works, the Smothers family has funded a Jack and Doris Series at the University of Texas Press.
Doris is survived by her son Bud Smothers and her daughter Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, both of San Antonio, five grandchildren Robert John Bruni of San Antonio, Katherine McCord Bruni of Boston, Jacqueline Bruni Chandler of Pipe Creek, Elizabeth Lamar Bruni of Dallas, and Natalia Bruni Weatherbie of Colorado Springs, and three great-granchildren Jonathan Christian Chandler, Justin Edward Bruni, and Travis Anthony Bruni, sister Kathleen McCord Simpson, Corpus Christi, TX.
Services Tuesday, February 2, 11:00 am Church of the Good Shepherd, Corpus Christi. Graveside at Seaside Memorial Cemtery will follow.
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Loving wife and mother, doting grandmother, great grandmother and aunt, astute businesswoman, caring employee, fervent philanthropist, dignified understated and elegant, she made differences in every life she touched. Doris was as she predicted carried away one full moon very like the ones she touched to watch rising over the bay.
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