LAURA INETA "NETA" (fORSYTHE) smitherman
Funeral services for Mrs. Neta
Smitherman, 91, of Carthage, Texas will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 25,
2013 at the Calvert Baptist Church with Rev. Ralph Powers officiating.
Burial will follow in the Sunnyside Cemetery in Calvert, Texas. Local
arrangements are by Hawthorn Funeral Home. Services are under the
direction of Heartfield Funeral Home in Hearne, Texas. Mrs. Smitherman
died peacefully May 21, 2013 in Carthage, Texas. Mrs. Laura Ineta
“Neta” Forsythe Smitherman was born October 22, 1921 in Hartshorne,
Oklahoma to Charles Tolliver and Mary Canelia Ballance Forsythe. She
finished schools in Oklahoma. Neta was working at the Brown Shipyard in
the blueprint department when she met and later married Cleo Smitherman
July 21, 1943 and together they celebrated 42 years of marriage before
he preceded her in death in 1985. Neta loved her Lord and family above
all else as a member of the Calvert Baptist Church and the love she
showed her husband children and grandchildren. She is preceded in death
by her parents, brothers, Edward and Johnny Forsythe, sister, Katy
Perry. Mrs. Smitherman is survived by her loving daughter, Doris Swope
and husband Vernon of Carthage, brother, Aiden Forsythe and wife
Cynthis of Houston, sister Lucille Lemley of Houston,
grandchildren,Theresa Bray and husband Michael of McKinney, Brent Swope
of Longview, Felicia Swope of Carthage, Jesica O’Bryan and husband
George of Tatum, eight great grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews
and a host of friends.