mary belle (pope) smitherman
LINCOLN (PNS)- Mrs. Mary Belle Smitherman, 91, died at 12:20 p. m. Monday at St. Clara's Hospital.
Her funeral will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Dammerman and Fricke Funeral Home with the Rev. E. H. Eckstein officiat- ing. Burial will be in Union Ceme- tery.
She was born Feb. 22, 1865, in Tennessee, a daughter of Simp- son and Sarah Sexton Pope. She married Jasper M. Smitherman in 1893 at Cantrall. He died in 1935.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Walter Leisch, Lincoln; a sister, Mrs. Pearl Bacon, Springfield; a grandchild, three step-grandchil- dren and three great grandchil- dren.
Her funeral will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Dammerman and Fricke Funeral Home with the Rev. E. H. Eckstein officiat- ing. Burial will be in Union Ceme- tery.
She was born Feb. 22, 1865, in Tennessee, a daughter of Simp- son and Sarah Sexton Pope. She married Jasper M. Smitherman in 1893 at Cantrall. He died in 1935.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Walter Leisch, Lincoln; a sister, Mrs. Pearl Bacon, Springfield; a grandchild, three step-grandchil- dren and three great grandchil- dren.