david ewart smitherman
SHREVEPORT - Services for David
E. Smitherman will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday September 4 in Frost
Chapel at the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, with Dr. William E.
Hull officiating. Interment will be at Forest Park Cemetery.
Mr. Smitherman died on Saturday September 1, 1984, at 5:30 p.m. at Schumpert Medical Center after a lengthy illness. He was born at Liberty Hill, La. on February 21, 1897, and attended the public schools in Bienville Parish. He graduated from the LSU Law School in 1922, and moved to Shreveport, joining the law firm of Smitherman, Mason & Tucker. Later he and his older brother, James E. Smitherman, formed the firm of Smitherman & Smitherman, which is now known as Smitherman, Lunn, Chastain & Hill, and Mr. Smitherman was a member of this firm of the time of his death.
He married Mary Virginia Hoss in 1924, who survives him. Mr. Smitherman is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. George D. Wray, Jr.; four grandchildren, Mary Virginia W. Brandon, Deanie W. Galloway, George D. Wary, 111, and Nancy W. Turner; four great-grandchildren; one sister, Eleanor S. Mather of Hattiesburg, Miss., and many nieces and nephews.
Mr. Smitherman served with the Field Artillery in the U.S. Army in 1918. He was admitted to practice before the Courts of Louisiana, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi, and the Shreveport, La. and American Bar Associations. He was a member of the Shreveport Club and a past president of the Shreveport Country Club.
Mr. Smitherman was one of the founders of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Shreveport and served on its Board of Directors for over fifty years.
While attending LSU; he lettered on the LSU football team and in track. Mr. Smitherman was an outstanding amateur golfer, winning the Louisiana State Amateur Championship and many local amateur titles.
Pallbearers will be George D. Wary, III, Robert E. Galloway, Charles W. Turner, Stuart D. Lunn, Merritt B. Chastain, Jr., W. James Hill, III, Rich- ard S. Schmidt, Armand E. Daigle, John J. Dalley, Jr. and Everett Eaves. Arrangements are under the direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home's Marshall Street Chapel.e
Mr. Smitherman died on Saturday September 1, 1984, at 5:30 p.m. at Schumpert Medical Center after a lengthy illness. He was born at Liberty Hill, La. on February 21, 1897, and attended the public schools in Bienville Parish. He graduated from the LSU Law School in 1922, and moved to Shreveport, joining the law firm of Smitherman, Mason & Tucker. Later he and his older brother, James E. Smitherman, formed the firm of Smitherman & Smitherman, which is now known as Smitherman, Lunn, Chastain & Hill, and Mr. Smitherman was a member of this firm of the time of his death.
He married Mary Virginia Hoss in 1924, who survives him. Mr. Smitherman is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. George D. Wray, Jr.; four grandchildren, Mary Virginia W. Brandon, Deanie W. Galloway, George D. Wary, 111, and Nancy W. Turner; four great-grandchildren; one sister, Eleanor S. Mather of Hattiesburg, Miss., and many nieces and nephews.
Mr. Smitherman served with the Field Artillery in the U.S. Army in 1918. He was admitted to practice before the Courts of Louisiana, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi, and the Shreveport, La. and American Bar Associations. He was a member of the Shreveport Club and a past president of the Shreveport Country Club.
Mr. Smitherman was one of the founders of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Shreveport and served on its Board of Directors for over fifty years.
While attending LSU; he lettered on the LSU football team and in track. Mr. Smitherman was an outstanding amateur golfer, winning the Louisiana State Amateur Championship and many local amateur titles.
Pallbearers will be George D. Wary, III, Robert E. Galloway, Charles W. Turner, Stuart D. Lunn, Merritt B. Chastain, Jr., W. James Hill, III, Rich- ard S. Schmidt, Armand E. Daigle, John J. Dalley, Jr. and Everett Eaves. Arrangements are under the direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home's Marshall Street Chapel.e