edith marie (Phipps) Smitherman

LONGSTREET, LA - Services for Mrs. Edith Marie Smitherman ,79 will be held at 10 AM, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home Chapel, Logansport, La. Officiating will be Dr. Charles Hall, Pastor of Longstreet Baptist Church of which Mrs. Smitherman was a member. Interment will follow in the Longstreet Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 5-9 PM, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at the funeral home.

Mrs. Smitherman was born in Mansfield, La. on April 5, 1929 to Sam and Minnie Lee Phipps. She retired as a school bus driver in Desoto Parish.

She was preceded in death by her husband Sisrow Smitherman and is survived by a son, John "Bubba" R. Smitherman and wife Vickie of Longstreet, La. and a daughter Judy Hicks and husband Jack of Haughton, La., two sisters, Gladys Coker, New Caney, Texas and Tommie Marr of Shreveport, La., four grandchildren, Jacky Hicks, Lisa Broadway, John Scott Smitherman and Ashlee Hatcher and by five great grandchildren, Dustin Hicks, B.J. Broadway, Nico Broadway, Chloe & Kyle Hatcher.

Pallbearers will be Jack Burford, Andy Runnels, Dean Runnels, Darrin Rolfe, Brad Shahan and Dennis Thompson. Rose-Neath Funeral Home Logansport, LA 318-697-4441