Longtime West Texas lawyer Bert Smith dies at 82
Bert Smith a World War II Navy veteran and longtime Permian Basin lawyer died Monday at 82. He practiced many law branches argued cases before the U S Supreme Court and wrote a column for the Andrews County News while living in Odessa since 1972. He donated his law library to the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and was a Community Statesman in 2005.
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