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1914 - 2011 (96 years)| Name | Lillie Mae LUTHER [1, 2, 3] | |
| Birth | 15 Aug 1914 | Darlington County, South Carolina  |
| Gender | Female | |
| HIST | Lillie L. Smith Lillie Luther Smith, widow of Jasper Chadwick Smith, died Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at Sumter Health and Rehabilitation East. Born Aug. 15, 1914, in Darlington County, Mrs. Smith was a daughter of the late Thomas Alexander Luther and Alice Dunlap Luther. She graduated from Hartsville High School and furthered her education at Coker College, Hartsville, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics with a double minor in history and religion in 1936. Upon graduation from Coker, she then took special graduate classes in children's literature at Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, N.C. As a young woman, she taught third and fourth grade in the South Carolina public school system in Darlington and Lee counties before marriage to her beloved husband, Jasper Chadwick Smith, on April 2, 1944. Following her marriage, she worked closely alongside her husband in his successful retail clothing business, Smith Clothing Co., formerly located at 34 N. Main St., Sumter, until his untimely death in October of 1958. Mrs. Smith was a member of First Baptist Church Sumter, where she formerly taught Sunday school, Bible school and was a choir mother for the young children's music program. She will be remembered for her love of learning and study in education, interest in music and the arts, and her lovely crochet handwork. Surviving are one loving and caring daughter, Jane Luther Smith of Sumter; three sisters, Mrs. Claude (Kathryn) Funkhouser and her husband of Bethesda, Md., Mrs. William Baxter (Marjorie) Harley and her husband of Columbia and Mrs. Robert Leslie (Mary) Hudson of Salisbury, N.C.; one sister-in-law, Mrs. Russell Jennings (Myrtle) Luther of Hartsville; and a number of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by one sister, Mrs. Ernest Brasington (Bessie) Rogers; and four brothers, William Carson Luther, Charles Marvin Luther, William Walton Luther and Russell Jennings Luther Sr. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Chapel of Bullock Funeral Home, 1190 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC 29150 with the Rev. Charles Clanton officiating. Interment will follow in Sumter Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Bullock Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the University of South Carolina Sumter Division of Arts and Letters Concert Series, c/o Dr. Hayes Hampton, Division Chair, 200 Miller Road, Sumter, SC 29150 or the Sumter Christian School Music Program, c/o Pastor Ron Davis, 420 S. Pike West, Sumter, SC 29150. You may sign the family's guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements. Posted in Obituaries on Friday, July 1, 2011 [3] | |
| _UID | CEECF21537D04B9CB43FEF67494BD7389BD0 | |
| Death | 29 Jun 2011 | Sumter Health and Rehabilitation East, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina |
| Burial | 2 Jul 2011 | Sumter Cemetery, 700 W. Oakland Avenue, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina [3] |
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| Person ID | I71874 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 29 Jul 2011 | |
| Father | Thomas Alexander LUTHER d. Bef 29 Jun 2011 | |
| Mother | Alice DUNLAP d. Bef 29 Jun 2011 | |
| _UID | AF015090DF624E35A7F7F690B311E599BA31 | |
| _UID | AF015090DF624E35A7F7F690B311E599BA31 | |
| Family ID | F180256 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Jasper Chadwick SMITH, b. 8 Aug 1914 d. 22 Oct 1958 (Age 44 years) | |||
| Marriage | 2 Apr 1944 [3] | |||
| _UID | 6076C6C07711484DAED42FCA5C94D206BC70 | |||
| _UID | 6076C6C07711484DAED42FCA5C94D206BC70 | |||
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| Family ID | F50018 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||
| Last Modified | 8 Jul 2011 | |||
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