hattie (smitherman) mcgarty

CHESTER, June 16.-Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Smitherman McGarity, 29, wife of John Harvey McGarity of the Wellridge section of Chester county about 10 miles southeast of Chester, who was instantly killed at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon by a stroke of lightning while standing at an open window of their home, will be conducted Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Mount Prospect Methodist church about four miles south of Richburg. The Rev. Thomas Byars Wilkes of Chester will officiate. The interment will be made in the church cemetery.

Mrs. McGarity is survived by her husband and two small sons of Wellridge, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Smitherman of Clinton; five brothers and two sisters: M. D. Smitherman, Jr., Johnnie Smitherman and Mrs. Daisy Williford all of Clinton; James Smitherman, Mrs. A. L. Harris, Rex Smitherman and Roy Smitherman all of Atlanta.

She was a native of Alabama. She was a member of Mount Prospect Methodist church.