george frank smitherman 

Boone - Mr. George Frank Smitherman, 84, retired security guard, died Dec 18, 1988, at Blowing Rock Hospital.  Funeral is 2 p.m. Wednesday at Reins-Sturvidant Funeral Home.  Visitation is 7 to 9 tonight.

Survivors are his wife, Elfa daughters, Mrs. Erie Winkler, Mrs Georgia Jones; brother, Lewis Smitherman; sisters, Mrs. Lucy May of Sugar Grove, Mrs. Sarah Martin of Limestone, Tenn., Mrs. Mae Jones of Deland, Fla., Mrs. Ruth May, Mrs. Beaulah Ward, both of Lenoir.

Memorials can be made to Claudia Millsaps Leukemia Fund, p.O. Box 164, Sugar Grove, N.C. 28679; to American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 1903, Boone, N.C.28607; or to Watauga County Hospital, Dr. J.B. Hagaman Jr Coronary Care Unit, Deerfield Road, Boone, N.C. 28607