William Turner smitherman

The funeral for William Turner Smitherman, 65, 908 N. Washington St, Tuscumbia, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Spry Funeral Home chapel, Sheffield.  The Rev. David Jicka will officate.  Burial will be in HIckory Flat Cemetery.

The family will receive friends 6-9 tonight at the funeral home.

He died Wednesday at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital, Florence.

He was a native of Lauderdale County, an auxiliary operator for TVA 41 years, a member of IBEW Union Local 558, a member of Masonic Lodge 613, Lexington, and a veteran of World War II and the Korean War.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Cora Smitherman; a son, Randy Smitherman, Sheffield; daughters, Miss Cathy Smitherman, Miss Donna Smitherman, Miss Melinda Smitherman, all of Tuscumbia, Mrs Nancy Steele, Stevenson, Mrs. Cherie Milstead, Florence; sisters, Mrs Jessie McGee, Miss Lillie Smitherman, Miss Bessie Smitherman, Mrs. Tessie Phillips, all of Killen; brothers, Ben Smitherman, Henry Smitherman, John Smitherman, all of Killen.

Bearers will be Lake Rymer, Clifford Yarbrough, H.S. Smith, Cecil Young, Donald Jones, James Jollay, Marsell L Love.