hallie edward smitherman jr
Hallie Edward Smitherman, 69,
Halfway, Mo., formerly of this area, died July 12, 1992, at the home.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Cantlon Chapel, Buffalo,
Mo.; burial in Memorial Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Buffalo. Friends
may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the chapel.
Mr. Smitherman was born in Kansas City, Kan., and moved to Halfway in 1983. He was a truck driver for the Frank Paxton Lumber Co. for 16 years, retired in the late 1970s. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Buffalo. He was an Army veteran of World War II.
His first wife, Ruth Swarts Smitherman, died in 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Doris Smitherman of the home; two daughters, Deloris Clark, Waverly, Iowa, and Twila Powers, Orrick in Ray County; a stepdaughter, Bettie Hatcher, Tallahassee, Fla.; three stepsons, Ken Niemi, Halfway, Bill Phillips, Buffalo, and Leslie Niemi, Albuquer- que, N.M.; three sisters, Dorothy Benefel, Cabool, Mo., Florence Loun, Kansas City, Kan., and Georgia Preston, Kansas City; and eight grandchildren.
Mr. Smitherman was born in Kansas City, Kan., and moved to Halfway in 1983. He was a truck driver for the Frank Paxton Lumber Co. for 16 years, retired in the late 1970s. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Buffalo. He was an Army veteran of World War II.
His first wife, Ruth Swarts Smitherman, died in 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Doris Smitherman of the home; two daughters, Deloris Clark, Waverly, Iowa, and Twila Powers, Orrick in Ray County; a stepdaughter, Bettie Hatcher, Tallahassee, Fla.; three stepsons, Ken Niemi, Halfway, Bill Phillips, Buffalo, and Leslie Niemi, Albuquer- que, N.M.; three sisters, Dorothy Benefel, Cabool, Mo., Florence Loun, Kansas City, Kan., and Georgia Preston, Kansas City; and eight grandchildren.