rebecca (brand) smitherman
Mrs. Robert Smitherman, 2600
Pike Road, Ensley, passed away at the residence on Monday morning,
November 22, after an illness of a year. For several months she was
confined to a rolling chair, and only a few weeks before her demise she
took to her bed. While she was aware that she could not recover, she
was always cheerful and bore her suffering with Christian fortitude.
While she wanted to get well she didn’t want to think that she would be a burden to her family and she prayed that God would take her to be with Him before she became entirely helpless. Although loving hands administered to her in an effort to make her more comfortable, the treatments of skilled physicians and the prayers of loved ones and friends were of no avail, and she quietly fell asleep.
She was born and reared at Randolph and lived there until moving to Birmingham about twenty years ago. She was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Will Brand, of Randolph and Ensley.
Mrs. Smitherman was a member of the Baptist Church, a devoted wife and a helpmate to her ‘husband in the fullest sense of the word. She was a loving and ‘understanding mother. It is not for us to question why God- took her while in life's prime. “Some time, perhaps, we will understand.”
She is survived by her husband, R. A. Smitherman, and two ‘daughters, Mrs. Thomas A. Peterson, Ensley, Mrs. H. B. Blankenship, Akron, Ohio; two brothers, J. C. Brand and W. C. Brand, Jr., two sisters, Mrs. Morgan Smitherman, all of Birmingham, and Mrs. Marvin Pickett, of near Mobile; one grandson, Robert Blankenship. Her eldest child died at the age of fourteen months and
sleeps in the Randolph Cemetery.
Funeral services were held from the Ensley Baptist Church on Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock, by Dr. C. B. Miller and Rev. W. C. Kirk. Pallbearers: D. P. Lowery, T. E. Lambkin, J. B. Canant, Connie Miller, C. A. Sutherland, Maurice Stringer.
While she wanted to get well she didn’t want to think that she would be a burden to her family and she prayed that God would take her to be with Him before she became entirely helpless. Although loving hands administered to her in an effort to make her more comfortable, the treatments of skilled physicians and the prayers of loved ones and friends were of no avail, and she quietly fell asleep.
She was born and reared at Randolph and lived there until moving to Birmingham about twenty years ago. She was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Will Brand, of Randolph and Ensley.
Mrs. Smitherman was a member of the Baptist Church, a devoted wife and a helpmate to her ‘husband in the fullest sense of the word. She was a loving and ‘understanding mother. It is not for us to question why God- took her while in life's prime. “Some time, perhaps, we will understand.”
She is survived by her husband, R. A. Smitherman, and two ‘daughters, Mrs. Thomas A. Peterson, Ensley, Mrs. H. B. Blankenship, Akron, Ohio; two brothers, J. C. Brand and W. C. Brand, Jr., two sisters, Mrs. Morgan Smitherman, all of Birmingham, and Mrs. Marvin Pickett, of near Mobile; one grandson, Robert Blankenship. Her eldest child died at the age of fourteen months and
sleeps in the Randolph Cemetery.
Funeral services were held from the Ensley Baptist Church on Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock, by Dr. C. B. Miller and Rev. W. C. Kirk. Pallbearers: D. P. Lowery, T. E. Lambkin, J. B. Canant, Connie Miller, C. A. Sutherland, Maurice Stringer.