doc benbow smitherman
EAST BEND - Funeral services for
Doc Benbow Smitherman, 82, of East Bend Rt. 2, a retired farmer, will
be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Baltimore Methodist Church here.
The Rev. E. W. Mills, the Rev. O. E. Merritt and the Rev. Coy Crow will conduct the service. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Grandsons will be pallbearers. Mr. Smitherman died at 7:20 a.m. yesterday at his home.
He was born in Yadkin County. Dec. 29, 1876, son of David A. and Sallie Norman Smitherman.
He married Miss Emma Binkley on June 9, 1896. He was a member of Shady Grove Methodist Church.
Survivors are his wife: five sons, Gorrell, Ralph and Paul B. Smitherman of East Bend, David H. Smitherman of Winston-Salem and Clyde Smitherman of Pfafftown; three daughters, Mrs. Sallie Choplin of East Bend and Mrs. Mae Sizemore and Mrs. Eileen Carter of Winston-Salem; two sisters, Misses Nancy and Millie Smitherman of East Bend: 29 grandchildren; and 23 great- grandchildren.
The Rev. E. W. Mills, the Rev. O. E. Merritt and the Rev. Coy Crow will conduct the service. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Grandsons will be pallbearers. Mr. Smitherman died at 7:20 a.m. yesterday at his home.
He was born in Yadkin County. Dec. 29, 1876, son of David A. and Sallie Norman Smitherman.
He married Miss Emma Binkley on June 9, 1896. He was a member of Shady Grove Methodist Church.
Survivors are his wife: five sons, Gorrell, Ralph and Paul B. Smitherman of East Bend, David H. Smitherman of Winston-Salem and Clyde Smitherman of Pfafftown; three daughters, Mrs. Sallie Choplin of East Bend and Mrs. Mae Sizemore and Mrs. Eileen Carter of Winston-Salem; two sisters, Misses Nancy and Millie Smitherman of East Bend: 29 grandchildren; and 23 great- grandchildren.