charles ray smitherman
Mr. Charles Ray Smitherman, 68, of 2339 W. Clemmonsville Rd., died at Forsyth Memorial Hospital Wednesday morning.
Mr. Smitherman was born Nov. 14, 1912, in Yadkin County to Dalt and Stella Lakey Smitherman. He had lived in Forsyth County for the past 25 years and was a member of Fraternity Church of the Brethren. Mr. Smitherman had retired from N. C. Baptist Hospital in 1975.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alma Zimmerman Smitherman of the home; his mother, Mrs. Stella Lakey of the home; one sister, Mrs. Betty S. Jones of Clair Shore, Mich.; three brothers, Dalton Lakey, Santa Rita, Mont., Alvis A. Smitherman, Tama Valley, Calif., and Thomas Smitherman, Greensboro, N. C.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Frater- nity Church of the Brethren by the Rev. Sona Frank and the Rev. Galen Crist with burial in the church cemetery. Mr. Smitherman will lie in state for 30 minutes prior to the service and the family will receive friends at Hayworth-Miller Silas Creek Chapel from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday evening. The family requests that memorials be made to the Fraternity Church of the Brethren.
Mr. Smitherman was born Nov. 14, 1912, in Yadkin County to Dalt and Stella Lakey Smitherman. He had lived in Forsyth County for the past 25 years and was a member of Fraternity Church of the Brethren. Mr. Smitherman had retired from N. C. Baptist Hospital in 1975.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alma Zimmerman Smitherman of the home; his mother, Mrs. Stella Lakey of the home; one sister, Mrs. Betty S. Jones of Clair Shore, Mich.; three brothers, Dalton Lakey, Santa Rita, Mont., Alvis A. Smitherman, Tama Valley, Calif., and Thomas Smitherman, Greensboro, N. C.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Frater- nity Church of the Brethren by the Rev. Sona Frank and the Rev. Galen Crist with burial in the church cemetery. Mr. Smitherman will lie in state for 30 minutes prior to the service and the family will receive friends at Hayworth-Miller Silas Creek Chapel from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday evening. The family requests that memorials be made to the Fraternity Church of the Brethren.