robert joe smitherman
BOONVILLE-The funeral for Robert
Joe Smitherman, 26, of Yadkinville, Rt. 1, will be conducted at 3 p.m.
Monday at Deep Creek Friends Church by the Rev. Larry Emerson and the
Rev. Mrs. E. G. Key.
Burial will be in the church cemetery, with full military honors by the East Bend American Legion Post.
The body will remain at Hayes-Matthews Funeral Home at Boon- ville until placed in the church an hour before the service.
Mr. Smitherman was killed Friday in an auto accident near East Bend.
According to State Highway Patrolman B. F. Holler, Mr. Smith- erman and two companions were traveling south on Union Hill Road when the driver, James David Prim of Boonville, lost control of the 1953 Oldsmobile on a sharp curve. The car overturned several times, said Holler, and was demolished.
Another occupant of the car, Jerry Norman Simpson, 20, of Boonville was admitted to Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, and was unconscious.
Prim was apparently uninjured. Surviving Mr. Smitherman are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Foy E. Smitherman; a sister, Miss Bonnie Smitherman; and two brothers, Buddy Smitherman of the home and Billy Dean Smitherman of Boone.
Burial will be in the church cemetery, with full military honors by the East Bend American Legion Post.
The body will remain at Hayes-Matthews Funeral Home at Boon- ville until placed in the church an hour before the service.
Mr. Smitherman was killed Friday in an auto accident near East Bend.
According to State Highway Patrolman B. F. Holler, Mr. Smith- erman and two companions were traveling south on Union Hill Road when the driver, James David Prim of Boonville, lost control of the 1953 Oldsmobile on a sharp curve. The car overturned several times, said Holler, and was demolished.
Another occupant of the car, Jerry Norman Simpson, 20, of Boonville was admitted to Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, and was unconscious.
Prim was apparently uninjured. Surviving Mr. Smitherman are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Foy E. Smitherman; a sister, Miss Bonnie Smitherman; and two brothers, Buddy Smitherman of the home and Billy Dean Smitherman of Boone.