william david smitherman
YADKINVILLE, May 19 William David Smitherman, 64, of East Bend, Route 2, died at his home at 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
Mr. Smitherman was a retired machinist of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, and returned from Ohio to live in Yadkin County 14 years ago.
He was born in Yadkin County Sept. 24, 1891, the son of W. H. and Sallie Phillips Smitherman. He was a member of Baltimore Methodist Church of Yadkin Masonic Lodge 162, A. F. and A. M., and was a veteran of World War I.
Mr. Smitherman married Miss Mattie Hobson Jan. 3, 1920.
Surviving are the wife, Mrs. W. D. Smitherman, of the home; one son, Rex M. Smitherman, of Toledo, Ohio; one daughter, Mrs. Joe Marler Jr., of Yadkinville, Route 2; three brothers, Fred and Calvin Smitherman of East Bend, Route 2, and Jether Smitherman of Elkin; four sisters, Mrs. Vance Phillips and Mrs. John Binkley, both of East Bend, Route 2, Mrs. Gertrude Wooten of Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Stanley Norwich of Biloxi, Miss.; four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Baltimore Methodist Church by the Rev. O. E. Merritt. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Masonic rites. Pallbearers will be Clyde Dinkins, J. P. Hupp, A. L. Penry, Julius Williams, Claude Cornelius and Broadus Dinkins. The body will remain at Mackie and Hin- shaw Funeral Home nere until taken to the church at 10:30 a.m. Monday to lie in state for 30 min- utes prior to the service.
Mr. Smitherman was a retired machinist of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, and returned from Ohio to live in Yadkin County 14 years ago.
He was born in Yadkin County Sept. 24, 1891, the son of W. H. and Sallie Phillips Smitherman. He was a member of Baltimore Methodist Church of Yadkin Masonic Lodge 162, A. F. and A. M., and was a veteran of World War I.
Mr. Smitherman married Miss Mattie Hobson Jan. 3, 1920.
Surviving are the wife, Mrs. W. D. Smitherman, of the home; one son, Rex M. Smitherman, of Toledo, Ohio; one daughter, Mrs. Joe Marler Jr., of Yadkinville, Route 2; three brothers, Fred and Calvin Smitherman of East Bend, Route 2, and Jether Smitherman of Elkin; four sisters, Mrs. Vance Phillips and Mrs. John Binkley, both of East Bend, Route 2, Mrs. Gertrude Wooten of Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Stanley Norwich of Biloxi, Miss.; four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Baltimore Methodist Church by the Rev. O. E. Merritt. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Masonic rites. Pallbearers will be Clyde Dinkins, J. P. Hupp, A. L. Penry, Julius Williams, Claude Cornelius and Broadus Dinkins. The body will remain at Mackie and Hin- shaw Funeral Home nere until taken to the church at 10:30 a.m. Monday to lie in state for 30 min- utes prior to the service.