wanda sue smitherman
"Leukemia victim - Seniors at Holt attend funeral for classmate.
Tuscaloosa, Al.., Oct. 14 [1960]- WANDA SUE SMITHERMAN, 17 was to be buried today wearing the Holt High School class ring for which she had waited so eagerly.
The ring arrived yesterday on the day the pretty brunette died of luekemia. She died without seeing it.
Senior boys were to be pallbearers and honorary pallbearers for the funeral services at 3 p.m. at Hopewell Baptist Church. Burial was to be in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park. Senior girls were to be flower girls.
WANDA SUE has complained of feeling tired, but had remained active in school affairs until her sudden final illness.
Classmates gave blood transfusions in the vain battle for her life.
Among the flowers beside her casket was a wreath with a large purple "H" from the class.
Wanda Sue was a member of the Physical Education Club, which performs for official school functions and Parent-Teacher Assn. programs. She also belonged to the Future Homemakers of America.
The class ring has a ruby with an "H" in the center. On one side is a little iron man, symbol of the school, and on the other, the year. Members of the class had waited eagerly for its arrival.
The Rev. John Davidson was to officiate.
Surviving are her parents: Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Smitherman of Cottondale, Rt. 1; a sister, Mrs. Wilda Edwards of Tuscaloosa; five brothers: Nolen Smitherman of Jemison, Lee, Jack, and Adolph Smitherman of Tuscaloosa, and Earl Smitherman of San Francisco [California], and her grandmother, Mrs. Alice [Dawson] Childress of Jemison."
Tuscaloosa, Al.., Oct. 14 [1960]- WANDA SUE SMITHERMAN, 17 was to be buried today wearing the Holt High School class ring for which she had waited so eagerly.
The ring arrived yesterday on the day the pretty brunette died of luekemia. She died without seeing it.
Senior boys were to be pallbearers and honorary pallbearers for the funeral services at 3 p.m. at Hopewell Baptist Church. Burial was to be in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park. Senior girls were to be flower girls.
WANDA SUE has complained of feeling tired, but had remained active in school affairs until her sudden final illness.
Classmates gave blood transfusions in the vain battle for her life.
Among the flowers beside her casket was a wreath with a large purple "H" from the class.
Wanda Sue was a member of the Physical Education Club, which performs for official school functions and Parent-Teacher Assn. programs. She also belonged to the Future Homemakers of America.
The class ring has a ruby with an "H" in the center. On one side is a little iron man, symbol of the school, and on the other, the year. Members of the class had waited eagerly for its arrival.
The Rev. John Davidson was to officiate.
Surviving are her parents: Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Smitherman of Cottondale, Rt. 1; a sister, Mrs. Wilda Edwards of Tuscaloosa; five brothers: Nolen Smitherman of Jemison, Lee, Jack, and Adolph Smitherman of Tuscaloosa, and Earl Smitherman of San Francisco [California], and her grandmother, Mrs. Alice [Dawson] Childress of Jemison."