pearl (Matthews) smitherman

Mrs. Pearl Smitherman, wife of W. B. Smitherman, died this morn- ing at her home in East Bend after an illness of six months. She is survived by her husband, three sons, Donald, Ernest and William and one daughter, Margaret, She is also survived by her father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Matthews, of East Bend, and several brothers and sisters.

Funeral services will be held from the East Bend Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the church graveyard.

(There is no record of Pearl being buried in the East Bend Baptist Church cemetery.  She died at the Broughton State Mental hospital in Morganton, Burke county, North Carolina)