JOHNNY L. SMITH

Funeral service for Johnny Lee Smith, 415 William, will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. William Bird will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m.

Smith, 61, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 1994, at Heartland Care Rehabilitation Center.

He was born Aug. 3, 1933, in Baton Rouge, La., son of Tom and Cindy Smith. He first married Thelma Marie Grimms in 1957. He and Geraldine DeBerry were married Aug. 25, 1994, in Cape Girardeau.

Smith was a truck driver with the city of Cape Girardeau Sanitation Department, retiring in 1991.

Survivors include his wife; five sons, Ronnie Jones of St. Louis, Johnny Smith Jr. and Tyrone DeBerry of Cape Girardeau, Herbert and Thomas Smith of Wichita, Kan.; six daughters, Linda Tipler of Memphis, Tenn., Yasmin and Teresa Smith, Lisa Jones and Janet Sisney of Wichita, Jennifer DeBerry of Cape Girardeau; three stepsons, John and Tommy DeBerry of Cape Girardeau, James DeBerry of Decatur, Ill.; a sister, Nora Smith, and 16 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a stepson.