Mary ann (childress) smitherman

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ann Smitherman, 81, of 707 25th Ave. E., who died Thursday at Estes Health Care Center, will be today at 2 p.m. at the chapel of Memory Chapel Funeral Home. The Rev. Sammie Bell will officiate with burial in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park and Memory Chapel Funeral home directing.

She is survived by her husband, Herbie C. Smitherman, Tuscaloosa, five sons, Nolen Smitherman, Jemison, Lee Smitherman, Jack Smitherman, Adolph Smitherman, all of Tuscaloosa, and Earl Smitherman, San Francisco Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Wilda Parsons, Tuscaloosa; four brothers Eddie Childress, Ivie Childress, Charlie Childress and Tom Childress, all of Jemison; a sister Mrs. Electa Lenoir, Jemison, 17 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren and other relatives.

Pallbearers will be grandsons, Kenneth Smitherman, Floyd Smitherman, Jackie Smitherman, Sammie Smitherman, Doug Edmonds, and Bill Don Smitherman.