edward smitherman jr

SMITHERMAN, EDWARD- Graveside service for Mr. Edward Smitherman, 62, 124 Aloha Terrace, Barefoot Mobile Home Park, Port Orange, who passed away Thursday at his residence, will be held 10 a.m. Monday at Cedar Hill Memory Gardens Daytona Beach, with the Reverend Hal Lee, pastor of the Glencoe Baptist Mission, New Smyrna Beach, officiating. Calling hours at the Cardwell Funeral Home, 864 Ridgewood Ave., Port Orange, will be from 2 until 8 p.m. Saturday and from 2 until 8 p.m. Sunday.

Mr. Smitherman was born in Chilton, Ala., and had lived in South Daytona for 22 years, before moving back to Alabama for three years and had been living in the Port Orange area for the past year. He was a clerk with the Jiffy Food Stores in Allandale and South Daytona. He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran, a member of the Maplesville Baptist Church in Maplesville, Ala., and a member of the Wilcon's Eureka Masonic Lodge No. 39 F&AM, Nuttley, N.J.

Survivors include his widow, Dorothy Louise; one son, William Q., South Daytona; one stepdaughter, Diane Mowery, Birmingham, Ala., and two granddaughters, Becky Diane King, Birmingham, Ala., and Amanda Kay Smitherman, South Daytona. Cardwell Funeral Home, Port Orange, is in charge of arrangements.