elfa mae (greene) smitherman

Mrs. Elfa Greene Smitherman, 90 of Boone, died Saturday evening, February 5, 2000, at her home.

She was born May 13, 1909 in the Beaver Dam community, a daughter of Adam Clark and Etta Greene.

Mrs. Smitherman was a charter member of Green Valley Baptist Church and attended Advent Christian Church, She was a salad maker at Hounds Ears Club House.

Survivors include two daughters, nine grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and a son-in-law.

She was preceded in death by her husband, George Franklin Smitherman, one daughter, Cornelia Miller; three brothers, Raymond, Alvin and Clyde Greene and two sisters, Mary Annie Beshears and Lucy Wilson.

Services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Austin & Barnes Funeral Home Chapel, officiated by Reverend Gordon Noble. Burial will follow at the Mount Lawn Memorial Park and Gardens.

Austin & Barnes Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Watauga Democrat, February 2000