mary virginia (hoss) smitherman
SHREVEPORT Services for Mrs.
Mary Virginia Hoss Smitherman, 84, of Shrevport will be held at
11:30a.m., Monday August 5, at Rose-Neath Marshall Street Chapel.
Officiating will be Rev. Stanford Parnell, Assoc. pastor of First
Presbyterian Church, where she was a member. Burial: Forest Park
Cemetery.
Mrs. Smitherman was a native of Greenwood, La. and a resident of Shreveport, and a homemaker. Having come from Tennessee the Hoss family were pioneer planters in this area. Mrs. Smitherman attended schools in Marshall, Texas as a girl and college at National Cathedral. After her marriage she made her life in Shreveport. She was very prominent in the early Junior League of Shreveport and other services and social activities, among them was the early Holiday In Dixie Ball. She was descended from the Moorings and the Hearnes of Mooringsport and related to the Noel family. She was preceded in death by her husband, David E. Smitherman. She died Friday, August 2, 1985 at her residence following a lengthy illness.
Survivors: daughter and son-in-law, Geraldine S. and George D. Wray, Jr.; four grandchildren, Mrs. Mary Virginia Brandon, Mrs. Deanie W. Galloway, Mr. George D. Wray, III, and Mrs. Nancy Turner, all of Shreveport; and four great grandchildren.
Pallbearers: Merritt Chastin, Charles W. Wray, Robert Galloway, George D. Wray, III, E. Alton Sartor, Robert H. Nelson and Charles W. Turner.
Mrs. Smitherman was a native of Greenwood, La. and a resident of Shreveport, and a homemaker. Having come from Tennessee the Hoss family were pioneer planters in this area. Mrs. Smitherman attended schools in Marshall, Texas as a girl and college at National Cathedral. After her marriage she made her life in Shreveport. She was very prominent in the early Junior League of Shreveport and other services and social activities, among them was the early Holiday In Dixie Ball. She was descended from the Moorings and the Hearnes of Mooringsport and related to the Noel family. She was preceded in death by her husband, David E. Smitherman. She died Friday, August 2, 1985 at her residence following a lengthy illness.
Survivors: daughter and son-in-law, Geraldine S. and George D. Wray, Jr.; four grandchildren, Mrs. Mary Virginia Brandon, Mrs. Deanie W. Galloway, Mr. George D. Wray, III, and Mrs. Nancy Turner, all of Shreveport; and four great grandchildren.
Pallbearers: Merritt Chastin, Charles W. Wray, Robert Galloway, George D. Wray, III, E. Alton Sartor, Robert H. Nelson and Charles W. Turner.