Funeral Services for Detective Jimmy Smith Announced
Funeral services for Detective Jimmy Smith will be held on Thursday, November 29th, 10:00 hours at Sandusky Avenue Christian Church, 1101 South Sandusky, Tulsa. The interment service will be held at the Woodlawn Cemetary, in Claremore, OK.
Officers are encouraged to say farewell to Jimmy and to celebrate the 31 years of dedicated service he gave to the Department and community. He will be sorely missed by all.
Veteran Tulsa detective dies at 53
By Staff Reports, Tulsa World
11/29/2007
CLAREMORE -- Jimmy Leroy Smith, a longtime Tulsa police detective, died Saturday after battling leukemia. He was 53.
A funeral service will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday at Sandusky Avenue Christian Church in Tulsa under the direction of Floral Haven Funeral Home of Broken Arrow. A graveside service will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore.
Smith was born in Borger, Texas, and grew up in Bartlesville, where he graduated from high school in 1972.
He received a bachelor's degree from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah in 1976.
Smith had worked for the Tulsa Police Department for 31 years, the last eight as a detective with the Major Crimes Unit.
He was diagnosed May 31 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia complicated by Philadelphia chromosome.
Because of the rarity of the disease, Smith was part of a trial study of an experimental drug at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Care Center in Hous ton.
He was honored when Oct. 4 was declared Jim Smith Day in Tulsa in recognition of his 31 years of service to the city of Tulsa.
Smith is survived by his wife, Debbie Smith of Claremore; a daughter, Jennifer Salman of Claremore; a son, Curtis Coloff of Claremore; his parents, Leroy and Cordelia Smith of Bartlesville; two sisters, Roseann Munn of Houston and Engla Hamilton of Bartlesville; and five grandchildren.
what happened to some of the other good ole detectives like Roy Hunt and Charlie Jones and Dick Bishop......
Posted by: always 1 | March 27, 2008 at 03:29 PM
I really don't know much about them. According to stuff I read on the net Roy Hunt retired in 1984. There is picture of a Dick Bishop at web sight http://www.tcso.org/annual%20report/2000Report.pdf. I could find nothing on Charlie Jones.
We lost another good Detective in late March, Mike Little he was one of Jimmy's close friends.
There are still other good men who have retired like Tom Campbell. He and his wife are doing well and God will contine to do so.
Thank you for your post. Did you know my husband?
Posted by: dsmithab | April 05, 2008 at 11:24 AM
No, I didnt know him (you all are a lot younger) but Im very sorry for your loss...The other policemen, the ones I mentioned were friends of my family for years.....
Posted by: always 1 | April 14, 2008 at 09:59 PM
Thank you and may God Bless you.
Posted by: Debbie Smith | April 30, 2008 at 09:24 AM