sudie emma (burleson) smitherman
Funeral services for Mrs. J. F.
Smitherman, 86, who died early Sunday morning in Memorial hospital were
held at 2:30 p.m. Tues- day at the First Christian Church.
Rev. D. L. Hughes will officiate. Mrs. Smitherman was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on November 24, 1864. She was married in 1883. They came to Hugo about 30 years ago from Mannsville, Oklahoma.
Survivors include her husband of Hugo, five daughters, Mrs. Lars Djernis of Texarkana. Mrs. Tom Suttle of Odessa, Mrs. Myrtle Tip- pitt of Dallas, Miss Beatrice Smitherman of Felch, Mich., and Mrs. T. W. Williams of Mansville; four sons, O. W. and C. D, of Fort Worth, C. F. of Tulsa, and Rufus of Athens, Texas; and eight grand children.
Interment was in Mount Olivet under direction of the Senner funeral home.
Pall bearers were: W. S. Henry, Ben Dean, R. C. Newton, W. P. Patterson, Claude Patterson, and John Hoffman.
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Smitherman, Mrs. M. J., 86, died at 9 a. m. Sunday of burns received at about 10 p. m. Saturday while trying to protect house plants from the cold.
According to Dr. H. D. Wolfe, 70 percent of the woman's body surface was burned when her night clothes caught fire from an open gas heater in the kitchen. Her husband wrapped her in a bedspread extinguishing the flames and preventing them from spreading.
Senner Funeral had charge of arrangements for Mrs. Smitherman's burial.
A resident of Hugo for the past 28 years, she was born in Verona, Miss.
Survivors are these children, Mrs. P. W. Williams, Mannsville; Miss Beatrice Smitherman, Felch, Mich.; Mrs. Tommie Suttle, Odes- sa, Tex.; Mrs. Lars Djernis, Tex- arkana, Ark.; Mrs. Myrtle Tippitt, Dallas, Texas; Charles Smitherman, Tulsa; Carroll Smitherman and Otto Smitherman, Fort Worth, and R. B. Smitherman, Athens, Texas.
Rev. D. L. Hughes will officiate. Mrs. Smitherman was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on November 24, 1864. She was married in 1883. They came to Hugo about 30 years ago from Mannsville, Oklahoma.
Survivors include her husband of Hugo, five daughters, Mrs. Lars Djernis of Texarkana. Mrs. Tom Suttle of Odessa, Mrs. Myrtle Tip- pitt of Dallas, Miss Beatrice Smitherman of Felch, Mich., and Mrs. T. W. Williams of Mansville; four sons, O. W. and C. D, of Fort Worth, C. F. of Tulsa, and Rufus of Athens, Texas; and eight grand children.
Interment was in Mount Olivet under direction of the Senner funeral home.
Pall bearers were: W. S. Henry, Ben Dean, R. C. Newton, W. P. Patterson, Claude Patterson, and John Hoffman.
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Smitherman, Mrs. M. J., 86, died at 9 a. m. Sunday of burns received at about 10 p. m. Saturday while trying to protect house plants from the cold.
According to Dr. H. D. Wolfe, 70 percent of the woman's body surface was burned when her night clothes caught fire from an open gas heater in the kitchen. Her husband wrapped her in a bedspread extinguishing the flames and preventing them from spreading.
Senner Funeral had charge of arrangements for Mrs. Smitherman's burial.
A resident of Hugo for the past 28 years, she was born in Verona, Miss.
Survivors are these children, Mrs. P. W. Williams, Mannsville; Miss Beatrice Smitherman, Felch, Mich.; Mrs. Tommie Suttle, Odes- sa, Tex.; Mrs. Lars Djernis, Tex- arkana, Ark.; Mrs. Myrtle Tippitt, Dallas, Texas; Charles Smitherman, Tulsa; Carroll Smitherman and Otto Smitherman, Fort Worth, and R. B. Smitherman, Athens, Texas.