Obituary Resources

Katherine Heloise Acre

Date of Birth: April 18, 1912
Date of Death: March 4, 1997

Burial Date March 7, 1997

Age 84

Funeral services were held at the United Methodist Church on March 7, 1997, with the Reverend Chuck Gilbert officiating.

Katherine Heloise Acre was born in Lake Providence, Louisiana, on April 18, 1912, to John Neal and Birdie Ruth Riddle Donovan.

She married Eugene Smith at Lake Providence, Louisiana, on May 26, 1929. He died in 1962.

She married Otha Acre in Canton on April 11, 1966.

She is survived by two sons, George Smith of Canton, and Wesley Smith of Ringwood; four daughters, Eugenia Murray of Amarillo, Texas, Jacquelyn Ingram of Enid, Dede Bond of Oakwood, Rebecca Throgmorton of Panhandle, Texas; one stepdaughter Gari Sue Gros of Arlington, Texas; one sister Jacquelyn Hollis of Talula, Louisiana; two brothers Dr. Wesley Donovan of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Kenneth Donovan of Baytown, Texas; sixteen grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren.