Posted on: Obion County, Tennessee, Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/ObionObits/607 Surname: Smithson, Alexander, Gaddis, Morris, Eddlemon, Howard ------------------------- Byrdie Alexander Completed arrangements are being announced for Byrdie Alexander, 80, of Union City, who died Aug. 22, 1999, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with burial to follow in East Side Cemetery in Martin. The Rev. Eddie Mallonee will officiate. Pallbearers will be Tom Griffin, Narvel Cranford, Fred Carter, Buddy Roberson, Golden Mathis, Charles Davis, Bill Eddleman and Larry Smithson. Friends may call at the funeral home 5-8 this evening. She was born Oct. 4, 1918, in Hornbeak, daughter of the late Alvie and Mary (Gaddis) Smithson. She was the widow of James Henderson Alexander, whom she married June 30, 1935. She had been a final inspector for the Ford Motor Co. in Michigan and was an American Baptist. Survivors include three sisters, Bonnie Morris of Union City, Norvelle Eddleman of Livonia, Mich., and Thelma Joan Howard of Samburg; three brothers, Hubert Smithson and Alvie Smithson Jr., both of Union City, and Alfred Ray Smithson of Plymouth, Mich.; and several nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Bobby Smithson. Taken from UC Messenger