wallace Leroy smitherman

Services for Wallace Smitherman, 62, of Price will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Pearson Funeral Home in Overton with the Rev. A.J. Lewis officiating. Burial will be in the Overton City Cemetery. He died Friday in a Tyler hospital after a lengthy illness.

Born Feb. 27, 1927, in Waco, he had lived in Price the past 30 years and was a previous New London resident. He was a Baptist and was a retired pumper in the East Texas Oil Field, and a World War II Army veteran.

Survivors include his stepmother, Margaret Smitherman of Price; brothers, Bob of Orlando, Fla., Sandy of Gilmer, Terry of Longview and Doyle of Arp; sister, Elsie O'Brain of Price; and several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.