Roy Calvin Sims

1925 - 1999  (74 years)

• Name	Roy Calvin Sims
  Birth	22 Mar 1925	Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 May 1999	Beckley, Raleigh County, WV   [1, 3, 4]
  	Roy Calvin Sims RAINELLE - Roy Calvin Sims, 74, died Monday, May 17, 1999, in a Beckley hospital following a long illness. Born March 22, 1925, at Rainelle, he was the son of the late Will and Bertie Kenney Sims. Mr. Sims was a mechanic and was formerly employed by Boley Chevrolet in Rainelle. He was a U.S. Army veteran and attended World Wide Church of God, Summersville. He was preceded in death by a son and daughter-in-law, Jimmy Roy Sims and Doris Sims; a brother, Rod Sims; and two sisters, Maybelle Hunter and Freda Armstrong. Survivors include his wife, Wanda Gibson Sims; a son, Dennis Calvin Sims and his wife, Rita, of Beckley; three sisters, Mary Knight and Martha Ellison, both of Florida, and Chila Sherman of Beckley; three brothers, Ralph and Troy Sims, both of Rainelle, and David Sims of Georgia; three grandchildren, Nancy Leatherberry of Ohio and Melissa Sims and Jeremy Sims, both of Beckley; and a great-grandson, Zachery James Leatherberry of Ohio. Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Smathers Funeral Home Chapel, Rainelle, with the Rev. Warren Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in Sims Cemetery, Rainelle. Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. today at the chapel. Pallbearers will be Billy, Hugh, Jeremy, Bobby, Burton and Matthew Sims. Arrangements by Smathers Funeral Home, Rainelle. (Beckley Register-Herald; May 19, 1999)
  Burial	20 May 1999	Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV   [1]
  Person ID	I7111	Crane Genealogy
  Last Modified	18 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	William Alexander Sims,   b. 15 Oct 1893   d. Jul 1962 (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Bertha Alice Kenney,   b. 6 Jan 1894   d. 20 Oct 1984 (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	11 Mar 1914  [3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F2298	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Living
  Children	1. Dennis Calvin Sims   2. Jimmy Roy Sims,   b. 6 Jan 1951, Hines, Greenbrier County, WV d. 6 Jul 1979 (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F2301	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S639] Obituary, Sims, Roy C., (Beckley Register-Herald, May 19, 1999 Obtained from the Register-Herald website on March 16, 2003), 5047. [S243] Marriage Record: CRANE, Mary Louise & MORTON, John Johnson, 15. Book 23, Page 264, Year of 1950. [S637] A. Simms to D. Benelli, 12 Mar 2003, 41. [S641] Melba B. Purkey, Purkey to DCB Email 14 Feb 2003, (14 Feb 2003), 41. [S638] Michael R. Bridgen, Bridgen Genealogy Website, (16 Mar 2003), 5045.