dee c smitherman
SMITHERMAN. D. C., age 48 of Leeds, Ala.. passed away Sunday a.m.
Survived by his wife, Mrs. Vera Smitherman: 3 brothers. A. F.. Howison and Eulas Smither- man: 4 sisters, Mrs. Alice Jack- son, Mrs. Ollie Mae Lovelady, Mrs. Helen Atchison and Mrs. Susie Mae Seales; stepmother. Mrs. Clara Snead.
Funeral services Tuesday 4 p.m. at Cedar Grove Baptist
Church. Interment Jefferson Memorial Gardens, the Rev. Robert Larry and the Rev. T. C. Collins officiating. Remains will lie in state at the church from 3 p.m. till time of service. Kilgore of Pell City directing.
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A 49-year-old Leeds man shot himself to death yesterday, ap- parently without motive.
He was identified as D. C. Smitherman, 112 25th-st., n, Leeds.
Acting Deputy Coroner Tom Ellison said Smitherman was found by his wife shortly afternoon Sunday. He was lying behind an outbuilding. A finding of suicide was returned.
Mrs. Smitherman told authorities her husband earlier had asked where the shotgun was and she told him.
She said the 16-gauge weapon had been hidden because a can- cer-stricken relative in the home had threatened to kill himself. The relative, she said, died a natural death last week.
Survived by his wife, Mrs. Vera Smitherman: 3 brothers. A. F.. Howison and Eulas Smither- man: 4 sisters, Mrs. Alice Jack- son, Mrs. Ollie Mae Lovelady, Mrs. Helen Atchison and Mrs. Susie Mae Seales; stepmother. Mrs. Clara Snead.
Funeral services Tuesday 4 p.m. at Cedar Grove Baptist
Church. Interment Jefferson Memorial Gardens, the Rev. Robert Larry and the Rev. T. C. Collins officiating. Remains will lie in state at the church from 3 p.m. till time of service. Kilgore of Pell City directing.
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A 49-year-old Leeds man shot himself to death yesterday, ap- parently without motive.
He was identified as D. C. Smitherman, 112 25th-st., n, Leeds.
Acting Deputy Coroner Tom Ellison said Smitherman was found by his wife shortly afternoon Sunday. He was lying behind an outbuilding. A finding of suicide was returned.
Mrs. Smitherman told authorities her husband earlier had asked where the shotgun was and she told him.
She said the 16-gauge weapon had been hidden because a can- cer-stricken relative in the home had threatened to kill himself. The relative, she said, died a natural death last week.