JAMES S. SMITHWICK

Funeral service for James S. Smithwick, 2801 Bloomfield, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. Steve Simmons and Larry Dowdy will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-9 p.m. today.

Smithwick, 77, died Monday, March 27, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Feb. 13, 1918, near Senath, son of James Thomas and Lulu Ethel Smithwick. He and Blondell Milam were married Aug. 10, 1939, in Fulton, Ky.

Smithwick was a route salesman with Colonial Baking Co. 22 years. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Jackson.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Jim Smithwick of Cape Girardeau; a brother, Martin Smithwick of Springfield; two sisters, Lulu Hancock of Kennett and Olleen Griffin of Benton, Ark.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and four sisters.