herbert alan smitherman
Funeral services for Herbert
Alan Smitherman, 21, of 2329 Rose- wood Avenue will be conducted at
Centenary Methodist Church at 3:30 p.m. today.
The body will remain at Vogler's Chapel until 2:30 p.m. and will lie in state at the church for 30 minutes before services to be conduct- ed by the Rev. J. C. Auman.
Burial will be in Forsyth Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Johnny Cunningham, Bobby Spach, Jimmy Spach, David Spach, Leonard DuBose, Tom Stockton, Teeny Chapple and Charley Chapple.
The followng will serve as honorary pallbearers:
The coaches and football team for Reynolds High School in 1950 and 1951; the Chapple Sunday School class at Centenary Meth- odist Church; members of Kappa Sigma fraternity at Davidson Col- lege, and Don Paschal, Donald Cunningham, Van Julian, Bobby Alexander, Lee Chatman, George Hemingway and Dr. Warren White.
Young Smitherman, a student at High Point College, shot himself to death Saturday afternoon. He did not leave a suicide note, and his reason for taking his life was not known except for the fact that friends said he had been depressed recently.WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Jan. 24
A 21-year-old Winston-Salem youth who overcame the crippling effects of spastic paralysis to play high school football was found shot to death this afternoon.
Dr. W. N. Dalton, Forsyth coroner, ruled the death a suicide.
Herbert Alan Smitherman died of a single blast from a 12 gauge shotgun, investigating officers said. The blast entered the upper abdomen.
The body was found slumped in an automobile by two police offi- cers as they patroled a lonely suburban street here.
Members of the family said they last saw the youth alive about half an hour before his body was found by police. They said he left home in apparent good spirits, and were at a loss to explain his action. However, friends of Smitherman said he had seemed depressed re- cently.
The young man was stricken at birth with spastic paralysis, and was unable to walk until the age of six, when he was enrolled in a Durham school for crippled children.
He learned to walk with the aid of crutches and began his educa- tion in a Winston-Salem elementary school. Later, at Reynolds. High School here, he tried to follow the example of an older brother who had been guard on the school's football teams of 1944-47.
The body will remain at Vogler's Chapel until 2:30 p.m. and will lie in state at the church for 30 minutes before services to be conduct- ed by the Rev. J. C. Auman.
Burial will be in Forsyth Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Johnny Cunningham, Bobby Spach, Jimmy Spach, David Spach, Leonard DuBose, Tom Stockton, Teeny Chapple and Charley Chapple.
The followng will serve as honorary pallbearers:
The coaches and football team for Reynolds High School in 1950 and 1951; the Chapple Sunday School class at Centenary Meth- odist Church; members of Kappa Sigma fraternity at Davidson Col- lege, and Don Paschal, Donald Cunningham, Van Julian, Bobby Alexander, Lee Chatman, George Hemingway and Dr. Warren White.
Young Smitherman, a student at High Point College, shot himself to death Saturday afternoon. He did not leave a suicide note, and his reason for taking his life was not known except for the fact that friends said he had been depressed recently.WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Jan. 24
Another Newspaper Story:
A 21-year-old Winston-Salem youth who overcame the crippling effects of spastic paralysis to play high school football was found shot to death this afternoon.
Dr. W. N. Dalton, Forsyth coroner, ruled the death a suicide.
Herbert Alan Smitherman died of a single blast from a 12 gauge shotgun, investigating officers said. The blast entered the upper abdomen.
The body was found slumped in an automobile by two police offi- cers as they patroled a lonely suburban street here.
Members of the family said they last saw the youth alive about half an hour before his body was found by police. They said he left home in apparent good spirits, and were at a loss to explain his action. However, friends of Smitherman said he had seemed depressed re- cently.
The young man was stricken at birth with spastic paralysis, and was unable to walk until the age of six, when he was enrolled in a Durham school for crippled children.
He learned to walk with the aid of crutches and began his educa- tion in a Winston-Salem elementary school. Later, at Reynolds. High School here, he tried to follow the example of an older brother who had been guard on the school's football teams of 1944-47.