joel tracy smitherman
PONTOTOC - Joel Tracy
Smitherman, 80, retired employee of a furniture manufacturing company,
died Wednesday at Pontotoc Community Hospital.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Browning Funeral Home in Pontotoc with burial in Ecru City Cemetery.
He was a World War II Army veteran and a member of Pontotoc First Baptist Church and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Smitherman, the husband of Miriam Smitherman, also leaves two daughters, Carolyn Ilacqua and Mary Doss, both of Pontotoc; two sons, Tracy Glenn Smitherman of Memphis and Joe Smitherman of Safety Harbor, Fla.; a sister, Louise Goode of Memphis; two brothers, Marvin Smitherman of Booneville and James Smitherman of Pontotoc, and six grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Browning Funeral Home in Pontotoc with burial in Ecru City Cemetery.
He was a World War II Army veteran and a member of Pontotoc First Baptist Church and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Smitherman, the husband of Miriam Smitherman, also leaves two daughters, Carolyn Ilacqua and Mary Doss, both of Pontotoc; two sons, Tracy Glenn Smitherman of Memphis and Joe Smitherman of Safety Harbor, Fla.; a sister, Louise Goode of Memphis; two brothers, Marvin Smitherman of Booneville and James Smitherman of Pontotoc, and six grandchildren.