ruEbeN "RUBE" s smitherman
Rube S. Smitherman of Cox Chapel
community, seven miles north of Ma- plesville, died Wednesday, August
27, in South Highland Infirmary, Birmingham. Funeral services were
held at 11 a.m. Friday from Cox Chapel church, conducted by the Rev. H.
F. Wesley. Interment was in the church cemetery: Spigener Funeral Home
was in charge.
Besides the wife surviving are six sons - A. L. Smitherman of Birmingham, Wesley of Andalusia, O. C. of Leeds, Odis of Maplesville, Eulas of Maplesville, and Howsen of the U. S. Army, Selma; four daughters-Mrs. Alice Jackson of Maplesville, Mrs. Ollie Mae Lovelady of Maplesville, Mrs. Helen Atchison of Bessemer, and Miss Suie Mae Smitherman of Maplesville; eight brothers-John, Will, Andy Smitherman of Randolph, John of Maplesville, Mark of South Carolina, Jess of Ganice Junction, Ala., Mack of Centreville, and Charles of Big Gap, Va; three sisters-Mrs. Sallie Jackson of Jackson, Mrs. Rodie Blocker of Randolph, and Mrs. Susie Coe of Mobile.
There are 22 grandchildren and four great grandchildren:
Besides the wife surviving are six sons - A. L. Smitherman of Birmingham, Wesley of Andalusia, O. C. of Leeds, Odis of Maplesville, Eulas of Maplesville, and Howsen of the U. S. Army, Selma; four daughters-Mrs. Alice Jackson of Maplesville, Mrs. Ollie Mae Lovelady of Maplesville, Mrs. Helen Atchison of Bessemer, and Miss Suie Mae Smitherman of Maplesville; eight brothers-John, Will, Andy Smitherman of Randolph, John of Maplesville, Mark of South Carolina, Jess of Ganice Junction, Ala., Mack of Centreville, and Charles of Big Gap, Va; three sisters-Mrs. Sallie Jackson of Jackson, Mrs. Rodie Blocker of Randolph, and Mrs. Susie Coe of Mobile.
There are 22 grandchildren and four great grandchildren: