jewel lavera (Haley) smitherman

Funeral for Jewel Smitherman, 85, of Orange, will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Claybar Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. David Berk- heimer of Community Church officiating. Burial will follow in Hill- crest Memorial Gardens. She died Friday at Baptist Hospital-Orange following a sudden illness.

A native of Rodney, and former resident of Dawson, she had lived in Orange for the past 49 years and was a retired cafeteria worker for the Orange school district with 20 years of service.

Survivors include one son, Bobby Smitherman of Orange; two sisters, Ollie Pickering of Orange and Naomi Wilson of Tennessee; 12 grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.