travis harding smitherman
EAST BEND- Travis Harding
Smitherman, 41, East Bend busi- nessman and community booster, died at
12:30 a.m. yesterday en Coute to a Winston-Salem hospital. Mr.
Smitherman had been in Heclining health for several months and seriously
ill two days. He was stricken at his home Tuesday and died of a severe
internal hemorrhage.
He was born in the Fall Creek community of Yadkin County (East Bend, Rt. 1) to Luther L. and Anna Reece Smitherman, and had lived in the county all his life.
Mr. Smitherman was graduated from East Bend High School in 1942, and a few months later went to work in e leaf department of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Winston-Salem.
Late in 1944 he went into the mercantile business with his father as L. L. Smitherman and Son in East Bend. He had oper- ated the store here about 18 years.
Mr. Smitherman was a charter member and secretary of the East Bend Volunteer Fire Department, and also a charter member of the East Bend Ruritan Club.
One of many community proj- ects he was interested in promot- ing was the annual Fourth of July Celebration. He had worked on this year's project Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Smitherman was a member of East Bend Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucille Creed Smitherman; three daughters, Miss Carolyn Smitherman, a student at Western Caro- lina College, and Miss Hope Smitherman and Miss Sandy Smitherman, both of the home; his father, of East Bend, Rt. 1; two brothers, Marshall and Evan Smitherman of East Bend, Rt. 1;. and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Styers of East Bend, Rt. 1, and Mrs. John Craver of Yadkinville. The funeral will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at East Bend Methodist Church by the Rev. Dwight Whitlock and the Rev. Hewey Parrish. Burial will be in. the Friends Cemetery here. The body will be taken to the home at 2 p.m. today from Bur- chette and Huff Funeral Home.
He was born in the Fall Creek community of Yadkin County (East Bend, Rt. 1) to Luther L. and Anna Reece Smitherman, and had lived in the county all his life.
Mr. Smitherman was graduated from East Bend High School in 1942, and a few months later went to work in e leaf department of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Winston-Salem.
Late in 1944 he went into the mercantile business with his father as L. L. Smitherman and Son in East Bend. He had oper- ated the store here about 18 years.
Mr. Smitherman was a charter member and secretary of the East Bend Volunteer Fire Department, and also a charter member of the East Bend Ruritan Club.
One of many community proj- ects he was interested in promot- ing was the annual Fourth of July Celebration. He had worked on this year's project Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Smitherman was a member of East Bend Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucille Creed Smitherman; three daughters, Miss Carolyn Smitherman, a student at Western Caro- lina College, and Miss Hope Smitherman and Miss Sandy Smitherman, both of the home; his father, of East Bend, Rt. 1; two brothers, Marshall and Evan Smitherman of East Bend, Rt. 1;. and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Styers of East Bend, Rt. 1, and Mrs. John Craver of Yadkinville. The funeral will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at East Bend Methodist Church by the Rev. Dwight Whitlock and the Rev. Hewey Parrish. Burial will be in. the Friends Cemetery here. The body will be taken to the home at 2 p.m. today from Bur- chette and Huff Funeral Home.