Walter Smotherman
March 29, 1888-July 30, 1954
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, July 31, 1954, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Walter Smotherman, 1272 South Fifth street, died at 10:45 p.m. Friday in his home. He had been ill for some time.
Surviving are his wife, Nobia; three sons, Marvin, William and Walter Jr., of Niles; one daughter, Mrs. Ilamae Evans, of Olivehurst, Calif.; 12 grandchildren, and two brothers, Oscar, of Newport, Ark., and Pasco, of Yuba City, Calif.
Smotherman was born on March 29, 1888, in Newport, Arks., and came here from Arkansas in 1940. He was employed by the Tyler Refrigeration Corporation.
Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home were[sic] services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. R.L. McCoy, pastor of the First baptist church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.