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Clytie Mae Fleetwood, 96, passed away peacefully Feb. 21, at her home in Sun Lakes, surrounded by her devoted children following a brief illness.
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Following a private family memorial, she was interred on Feb. 25 at the Valley of the Sun Cemetery, Sun Lakes. Family luncheon was provided by the Pleasant 2nd Ward Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Born in Tokio, Terry County, Texas, on a ranch and raised on a farm in eastern New Mexico, she was the only daughter of Andrew Quincy and Lillie Helmer Smith. She received her teaching certificate at Eastern New Mexico College in Portales, N.M., and taught school in Dora, N.M. She was a member of the Bethel Baptist Community and of the Rebekahs.
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She met her husband, Haldon Thomas Fleetwood, in Clovis, N. Mex., where he was serving with the U.S. Army Air Corps and they were married July 13, 1944, in Portales, N.M. He preceded her in death in 2008.
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Clytie was a member of the so-called “Greatest Generation”, living through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and World War 2. While her husband was serving in the Pacific Theater for the Army Air Corps, Clytie lived in Los Angeles working in an airplane factory installing insulation in war aircraft. When her husband returned from the war, they moved back to New Mexico where Hal worked for Standard Oil Company. After a few years, they moved back to the family farm for a few years before returning to Los Angeles to care for her husband’s grandmother.
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From Los Angeles, Standard Oil relocated the family to Tucson, then eventually to Holbrook, where they were in the service station business.
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Clytie also taught school and worked in the Holbrook School library. While living in Holbrook she was active as a Girl Scout leader, a member of the Holbrook Hospital Auxiliary, Health Systems Agency in Flagstaff, Governor’s Highway Safety Commission, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, community fundraisers, Lady Elks, Bridge Club, Navajo County Fair Racing Commission, transported the ill to the hospital, knitted stockings for newborns and planned patient parties at the Holbrook Hospital. In 1979, Clytie was named Holbrook’s Woman of the Year.
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Clytie and Hal retired to Sun Lakes in 1984. She attended Sun Lakes Baptist Church, then was a member of Sun Lakes Community Church until her death. She and her husband loved to travel, play cards and spend as much time as possible with her family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She has traveled most of the United States with family, oftentimes making them family history trips with cousins.
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She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her only brother, Andrew Quincy Smith Jr.; and one grandson, Richard McNabb.
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She is survived by her two children, Michael (Marina) Fleetwood of Sun Lakes and Mona (Teddy) McNabb of Holbrook; grandchildren, Adam Fleetwood of Dallas, Texas, Hailee (Sean) Pierce of Phoenix, Casey (Vickie) Black of Superior, Colo., Jeff McNabb, Doug McNabb, Michele McNabb, Marissa Mitchell; Kendall Cox and Nathan Cox; and 14 great-grandchildren.
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Bueler Mortuary of Chandler handled the arrangements.
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