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Funeral services will be held
Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the Osborn Funeral Chapel for C. B.
Smitherman, with Dr. Scott Tatum, pastor of Broadmoor Baptist Church,
officiating. Burial will be in the Forest Park Cemetery.
Mr. Smitherman, 77, 395 Albany Ave., local oil man, died at 5 a.m. today at Highland Hospital following a short illness.
A native of Liberty Hill in Bienville Parish, Mr. Smitherman was a member of a prominent family in both Caddo and Bienville parishes. His parents were the late Robert Grandison Smitherman and Ra- chel Roden Smitherman of Liberty Hill.
Mr. Smitherman was associated with the oil business for many years, retiring four years ago to enter agriculture with a brother, R. G. Smitherman Jr. He spent eight years with the Louisiana Department of Conservation under Gov. Sam Jones and Jimmie Davis. He attended Louisiana Tech where he was a member of Zeta Alpha Kappa.
Survivors include his widow; four sons, Robert Swanson Smitherman of Mt. Pleasant, Tex., Harold B. Smitherman of Shreveport, Charles E. Smitherman of Chicago, Ill., and David E. Smitherman of Baton Rouge; two brothers, R. G. Smitherman Jr., and David E. Smitherman, both of Shreveport; and one sister, Mrs. Victor T. Mather of Hattiesburg, Miss.
Pallbearers will be Marlin Vernon, Howard McCarty, J. E. Smitherman Jr., H. D. Jones, George D. Wray Jr., Dalton Pittman, Johnny Swanson and Bill Swanson.
Mr. Smitherman, 77, 395 Albany Ave., local oil man, died at 5 a.m. today at Highland Hospital following a short illness.
A native of Liberty Hill in Bienville Parish, Mr. Smitherman was a member of a prominent family in both Caddo and Bienville parishes. His parents were the late Robert Grandison Smitherman and Ra- chel Roden Smitherman of Liberty Hill.
Mr. Smitherman was associated with the oil business for many years, retiring four years ago to enter agriculture with a brother, R. G. Smitherman Jr. He spent eight years with the Louisiana Department of Conservation under Gov. Sam Jones and Jimmie Davis. He attended Louisiana Tech where he was a member of Zeta Alpha Kappa.
Survivors include his widow; four sons, Robert Swanson Smitherman of Mt. Pleasant, Tex., Harold B. Smitherman of Shreveport, Charles E. Smitherman of Chicago, Ill., and David E. Smitherman of Baton Rouge; two brothers, R. G. Smitherman Jr., and David E. Smitherman, both of Shreveport; and one sister, Mrs. Victor T. Mather of Hattiesburg, Miss.
Pallbearers will be Marlin Vernon, Howard McCarty, J. E. Smitherman Jr., H. D. Jones, George D. Wray Jr., Dalton Pittman, Johnny Swanson and Bill Swanson.