Virginia Ruth Smithers, 82, of rural Lagro, Indiana, died at 3:14 pm, Saturday, August 14, 2021, at her granddaughter’s home in Bunker Hill, Indiana. She was born on July 2, 1939, in Wabash, Indiana, to Ira and Mary Louise (Ply) Miller.
Virginia attended Lagro High School. She married Ellis Smithers at her pastor’s house in Lagro, on November 18, 1961; he died December 29, 2006. She was a homemaker and worked part time at Chowders Restaurant in Wabash. Virginia was a member of the Eastwood Church of Christ. She enjoyed cooking, baking pies from scratch, crossword puzzles, watching Little House on the Prairie with her grandkids, and eating banana splits.
She is survived by her son, Myron E. (Donna) Smithers of Wabash, two grandchildren, Shanna (Rory) Griffis of Bunker Hill, and Chaston (Pepper) Smithers of Peru, Indiana, and six great-grandchildren, Bryce Smyth, Chloe Smyth, and Gabrielle Griffis, all of Bunker Hill, Alexander Smithers, Zachary Smithers, and Mary Smithers, all of Peru. She was also preceded in death by her parents, son, Byron Smithers who died April 22, 2021, and her two sisters, Donna J. Miller and Carol Pickle.
Funeral services will be 10:30 am, Friday, August 20, 2021, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, with Tim Tyner, Evangelist officiating. Burial will be in Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Marion. Friends may call 9:30 – 10:30 am Friday, at the funeral home.
Preferred memorial is the Wounded Warriors Project.
The memorial guest book for Virginia may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.
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