joyce smitherman

TROY - Joyce Smitherman , age 88, formerly of Brentwood Apts., Troy, died Monday, July 24, 2006, at Summit Place, Mooresville.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Pugh-Troy Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bobby Tyson officiating. Burial will be in Southside Cemetery, Troy.

Mrs. Smitherman was born July 5, 1918, at Montgomery County, N.C., the daughter of the late Samuel and the late Tommae (Tomlinson) Smitherman . She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, a retired employee of the N.C. Agriculture Extension Service-Montgomery County and U.S. Army veteran of World War II.

She is survived by a brother-in-law, Bill Lemons of Troy; sister-in-law, Mary Smitherman of Fayetteville; Sam Smitherman & family of Fayetteville and Scott Penegar & Family of Mooresville.

The family will receive friends from 10 until 11 a.m. Wednesday at Pugh-Troy Funeral Home, 211 North Main Street, Troy, N.C.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Lake Norman, 705 Griffith St., Suite 203, Davidson, N.C. 28036

Arrangements by Pugh-Troy Funeral Home.

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