john d smitherman

MULBERRY, Tenn.- John D. Smitherman, 55, of Mulberry died Sunday at Lincoln Regional Hospital. The funeral will be Wed- nesday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home chapel with Roy Markham, Lewis Ellenburg and Charles Martin officiating.

Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Jasper, Ala. at 5:30 p.m.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Rose Cooper Smitherman; two daughters, Mrs. Patricia Swenssen and Mrs. Karen Lehman, both of Oregon; his mother, Mrs. Dora J. Smitherman Chandler of Virginia; four sisters, Mrs. Lorene Conley of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Mrs. Verla Wirth, Mrs. Glenna Bernard and Mrs. Darlene Duff, all of Virginia; two brothers, Paul Smitherman of Florida and Ray Smitherman of Virginia; and three grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the National Association of Atomic Veterans.