frances lucinda (james) smitherman

Mrs. Frances J. Smitherman, 65 years of age, and the wife of Dan Smitherman, of this city, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fay Chambers, 2525 Eighth street, at 12:30 o'clock Friday night. Funeral services will be conducted from the daughter's home at 3 o'clock this afternoon, with Dr. Joseph P. Boone in charge, and interment in Evergreen cemetery will follow.

Besides the husband, Mrs. Smitherman leaves three daughters: Mrs, Pearl Koster, of Birmingham; Mrs. W. T. Godwin, of Birmingham, and Mrs. Fay Chambers, of Tuscaloosa. There are two sons: C. H. Smitherman, of Jacksonville, Fla.,and Raymond Smitherman, of Waycross, Ga. There are also three sisters: Mrs. Rachael Hardin and Mrs. Sarah Hunt, of Brent, Ala., and Mrs. Will Ambrose, of Blocton, and one brother, John James, of Brent.

Active pallbearers will be Dr. D. W. Ward, Wilber Ward, Luth- er Ward, Fritz Thompson, Harold Ward and Floyd Ambrose. Hon- orary pallbearers will be Albert Taylor, George McKenzie, Billie Connell, Wm. Fuller Prince, Jim Green, Wm. McGriffert, Joe Deacy and A. Holczstein.