mamie marie (smitherman) Wagoner
EAST BEND - Mrs. Mamie Marie
Smitherman Wagoner, 90, of Route 1, East Bend, died Tuesday afternoon
at N.C. Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. She was born in Yadkin
County February 25, 1903, daughter of the late David Ander- son and
Sarah Wall Smitherman. She was a member of Center Unit- ed Methodist
Church in Yadkin- ville. Mrs. Wagoner was a graduate of East Bend High
School and earned her teaching certificate from Appalachian State
University. She later taught at Shady Grove School and Fall Creek
Elementary School. A lifelong resident of Yad- kin County, she spent
her early life in East Bend, but later moved to Yadkinville where she
spent most of her life. However, during the past five and a half years,
she had again resided in East Bend. She is preceded in death by two
hus- bands, Pleasant R. Matthews in 1942 and Hilery S. Wagoner in 1972;
one sister, Sylvania Wil- liams, and one brother, Bradford Smitherman.
Surviving are four brothers, Dwight Smitherman and Rev. Glenn
Smitherman, both of East Bend, Joe Smitherman of Winston-Salem and Guy
Smither- man of the Yadkin Nursing Center in Yadkinville; several
nieces and nephews; one stepson, Harold Wagoner of East Bend; two step-
daughters, Minnie Ruth Moxley and Pauline Garner, both of Boon- ville.
Funeral services will be con- ducted Friday at 2 p.m. at Huff Funeral
Home Chapel with Rev. Andy Lambert and Rev. Glenn Smitherman
officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect United Method- ist Church
cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday from 7 until 9 p.m.
at Huff Funeral Home in East Bend. Friends may call at other times at
the residence of Rev. Glenn Smitherman in East Bend.