ruth elaine (swart) smitherman

MRS. HALLIE E. SMITHERMAN Mrs. Ruth E. Smitherman, 54, of 5106 N.E. 48th, died Sunday at University of Kansas Medical Center. She was born in Mulvane, Kan., and had lived in this area 30 years.

Mrs Smitherman was a member of the Maple Park Bible Church.

She leaves her husband, Hallie E. Smitherman of the home: two daughters, Mrs. DeLoris Clark, Lakeland, Minn., and Mrs. Twila Powers. Kansas City; and three grandchildren.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Newcomer White Chapel: burial in New Hope Cemetery, Liberty. Friends may call from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel.