elizabeth estelle (gardner) smitherman
Estelle Smitherman, 88, of Bowling Green died at 8:35 a.m. Sept. 19, 2007, at a Bowling Green nursing home.
The Hamilton, Texas, native was a homemaker, a graduate of Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas, and was a member of the Church of Christ. She was a daughter of the late Walter C. Gardner and Ruby Wittington Gardner and the wife of the late Thomas Smitherman. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Gayle, Kenneth, Sherman and W.C. Gardner.
Memorial service is at 11 a.m. Saturday at Johnson-Vaughn- Phelps Funeral Home. Visitation is from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Words of condolence may be sent to jvpfh@bellsouth.net. Survivors include a son, Tommy Smitherman and his wife, Kay, of Houston; two daughters, Ann Perkins and her husband, Gene, of Berthoud, Colo., and Charlotte Nelson and her hus- band, Randy, of Bowling Green; a brother, Bobby Gardner of Dixon, Tenn.; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The Hamilton, Texas, native was a homemaker, a graduate of Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas, and was a member of the Church of Christ. She was a daughter of the late Walter C. Gardner and Ruby Wittington Gardner and the wife of the late Thomas Smitherman. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Gayle, Kenneth, Sherman and W.C. Gardner.
Memorial service is at 11 a.m. Saturday at Johnson-Vaughn- Phelps Funeral Home. Visitation is from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Words of condolence may be sent to jvpfh@bellsouth.net. Survivors include a son, Tommy Smitherman and his wife, Kay, of Houston; two daughters, Ann Perkins and her husband, Gene, of Berthoud, Colo., and Charlotte Nelson and her hus- band, Randy, of Bowling Green; a brother, Bobby Gardner of Dixon, Tenn.; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.