vanda lea (forester) smitherman

Vanda Smitherman LUBBOCK - Funeral services for Vanda Lea Smitherman, 78, mother of Monty Bob Smitherman of Abernathy and sister of Arvie Schulz of Floydada, will be at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in Shepherd King Lutheran Church with the Rev. Mel Swoyer, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Abernathy Cemetery by Resthaven Funeral Home.

Mrs. Smitherman died Saturday, Feb. 26, 1994, in West Texas Lutheran Home.

She was born on June 28, 1915 in Schulenberg. She was a homemaker and member of Shepherd King Lutheran Church.

She married Roy Harding. He died in March of 1992.

Other survivors include three other sons, Roy Lee of Idalou, Vernie Ray and Jim Harding, both of Lubbock; a daughter, Roxy Ann Saroka of College Station; three brothers, Milton Forester and Floyd Forester, both of Lubbock, and Luther Forester of New Home; two other sisters, Myrtle Bartlett of Meadow and Ludell Meil of Cactus; 12 grand-children; and six great-grandchildren. A son, Robert Henry, died in 1973.