Thelma Thurstine Smith
Published 5:00 am Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Services for Thelma Thurstine Smith, of Brookhaven, were today,Sept. 18, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inEasthaven Cemetery.
Mrs. Smith, 92, died Sept. 16, 2006, at Beverly Health Care. Shewas born on March 29, 1914, to Harvey P. Posey and Pearlie NationsPosey.
She was a homemaker. She was a member of Macedonia BaptistChurch.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husbands, VirgilDurr and Clemmie Smith; her sons, Thomas Gartman and L.M. GartmanJr.; her daughter, Peggy White; her brother, Hollis Posey; and hersister, Irma Cotten.
Survivors are her sister, Janis Owens and husband Harold, ofOwensville, Ind.; her son-in-law, Jerry White, of Brookhaven; herdaughter-in-law, Pat Gartman, of Brookhaven; her six grandchildren;six great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; hernumerous nieces and nephews, and numerous stepchildren,step-grandchildren, step-great-grandchildren andstep-great-great-grandchildren.