April 18, 2024

Erma Mae Smith, 91, of Pomeroy, died Saturday May 13, 2017 at Holzer Medical Center in Gallipolis.

Born June 17, 1925 in West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Sheridan and Julia Balwdin Gibbs. Erma was retired from Veterans Memorial Hospital.

She is survived by a son, Robert (Barbara) Smith; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Smith; a son, Eugene Smith; one grandson Dallas Smith; one sister, Alma and three brothers, June, Bill and Gerald.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday, May 15, 2017 at Ewing-Schwarzel Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Pastor Loren Seibold officiating. Burial will be in the Hemlock Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday from 11 a.m. till 1 p.m. at Ewing-Schwarzel Funeral Home. Friends are encouraged to sign the online guestbook at ewingfuneralhome.net.