Obituary for Tacy Louise Pearson

Tacy Louise (Smith) Pearson was born August 23, 1919, to Joe and Lona Smith in Howard County, Arkansas. The family moved to Oklahoma in January 1920. After a long illness, the Lord took her home April 24, 2009.

 

Tacy graduated from Pioneer High School in 1938 and from Oklahoma College for Women in 1942. During her working career, Tacy taught science and biology at various schools, including Hastings and Idabel, Oklahoma; Friona, Texas; and Hot Springs, Arkansas. She also worked in the chemistry Lab of the F.B.I. in Washington D.C. During the summer after a year at Friona, Texas, she met Jack Pearson and they were married in 1958.  She completed her teaching career of 45 years at Putnam City High School (where she starting teaching BSCS Biology in 1959), and retired in 1980.

 

She is preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and three sisters, step-daughter Beverly Pearson Huddleston, and granddaughter Carrie Huddleston. She leaves behind her husband Jack, step-daughters Linda Lou Pearson-Sippel and Joan Marie Pearson-Word, Sister Emma Jean Stover, three grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and many nieces, nephews and friends.

 

After retirement Tacy and Jack spent most of the time at their place at Grand Lake where they enjoyed fishing and swimming. While she was in Oklahoma City, she was a member of Northwest Baptist Church where she taught a ladies’ Sunday School Class. She also taught Children’s Sunday School classes at the Langley Baptist Church at Grand Lake. She loved being outdoors and often worked in the field with her father after all her brothers married and left home. She frequently filled her car with nieces and nephews and headed for a local swimming pool or a nearby lake for a weekend camping trip.

 

We rejoice in her Heavenly reunion with numerous family members and friends, and she will be greatly missed by remaining family and friends.

 

Services will be at Northwest Baptist Church at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 29, 2009,  under the direction of Mercer-Adams Funeral Home, in Bethany, Oklahoma.