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Myra Renea Smith
Myra Renea Smith always tried to give her best. Whether it was preparing for guests at her job at Cypress Breeze Guesthouse or making sure her employers had the right kind of champagne and sippin’ tequila, Myradoall, as she often called herself and listed as her e-mail address was ready to serve.
Many a child at Lake McQueeney caught their first fish under her tutelage and heard her homespun philosophies of life under the moon and stars reflecting off the water. Myra made friends with store clerks, bank presidents and ditch diggers.
Feisty and irascible, though, there was so often the voice mail, “Jim, we have a problem and you need to call me right now!” These occurrences were so regular, that they could lead to mountains out of molehills or the one too many cries of “wolf.”
An urgent call about a dead bat on the steps years ago resulted in the sheriff’s office being called when Myra did not get the response from her employer and his guests that she expected. Wildly waving at our boat to return immediately, one of the guests said, “throw it on the grill.” She stormed off in a huff and called the sheriff. A young man from Guadalupe County arrived, asked her what she expected him to do. Days later, a small blurb appeared in The San Antonio Express-News, “Rabid Bat Found at Lake McQueeney.”
Other times, her warnings went unheeded and led to big problems. In 1998 her warnings of, “A wall of water is coming right now” led to her boss’s Sea Doo jet ski coming to rest on the roof of The Lake Breeze Ski Lodge’s roof.
Myra was born on June 28, 1962 in Texarkana, Ark. and passed away on Nov. 20, 2009. She grew up in Linden, Texas about 20 miles south of Texarkana. She lived in Seguin and the McQueeney area for the last 25 years.
She was preceded in death by her father, Floyd Smith, Sr., who taught her many of the handyman skills that proved so useful, and a brother, Grady Gerald Smith.
She is survived by her mother, Mary Evelyn Smith of Linden, Texas, her sister Mary Ann Caraway and her husband, Ricky of Atlanta, Texas, her brother Floyd Smith Jr and his wife Brenda of Marshall, Texas, five nephews and one niece. She will be greatly missed by all of her friends who knew her.
Funeral services wwew Saturday, Nov. 28 in Atlanta, Texas, at 2 p.m. at the Hanner Funeral Chapel, Rev. John Coleman officiating.
There will be a celebration of her life at a potluck dinner at Jim and Kelly Daniell’s lake house at 186 Daniell Alley, Lake McQueeney, Texas 78123 on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. If you knew her, you have a story.
Published November 29, 2009
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