 1917 - 2007 (90 years)
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| Name |
Howard Franklin Sims [1] |
| Birth |
7 Apr 1917 |
Sims Mountain, Greenbrier County, WV  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
15 Dec 2007 |
Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV [1] |
| Burial |
20 Dec 2007 |
Howard F. Sims Cemetery [1] |
| Person ID |
I808 |
Crane Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
18 Jul 2022 |
| Father |
Lue Alzo Sims, b. 25 Apr 1889, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV d. 5 Dec 1983, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV (Age 94 years) |
| Mother |
Ida Garfield Cox, b. 24 May 1897, West Virginia d. 23 Feb 1961 (Age 63 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1914 [3, 4, 5] |
| Family ID |
F200 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Evelyn Louise McGuire, b. 28 Jan 1924, Springdale, Fayette County, WV d. 15 Sep 2000, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV (Age 76 years) |
| Marriage |
Y [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Norma Gathalee Simms, b. 11 Jul 1947, Fayette County, WV d. 21 Nov 2019, Raleigh General Hospital (Age 72 years) |
| | 2. Living |
| | 3. Linda Simms |
| | 4. Freda Simms, b. 19 Jun 1942, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV d. 3 Oct 2023, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV (Age 81 years) |
| | 5. Karen Simms |
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| Family ID |
F1597 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
23 Nov 2019 |
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| Sources |
- [S782] Obituary, Simms, Howard Franklin, (Beckley Register-Herald), 12 Dec 2007 (Reliability: 2).
RAINELLE — Howard Franklin Simms, 90, of Loops Road, died Saturday afternoon, Dec. 15, 2007, on his way home from Beckley, following a long illness.
Born April 7, 1917, on Simms Mountain, he was the son of the late Lue Alzo and Ida Garfield Cox Simms.
Mr. Simms had worked as a coal miner, farmer, and saw mill worker, during his lifetime, and was a Christian.
Other than his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn Louise McGuire Simms, in 2000; a sister, Beulah Kenney; a brother, Wilson Simms; and a granddaughter, Beverly Redden Morrell.
Survivors include four daughters, Freda Sheaves and husband, Clayton, of Danese, Linda Church and husband, Larry, of Meadow Bridge, Karen Brant and husband, Delbert, of Danese, and Gathalee Barnett and companion, John Ondo, of Danese; a son, Darrell H. Simms and wife, Carolyn, of Danese; 15 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Wallace & Wallace Chapel in Rainelle, with Pastor Allen Whitt officiating. Burial will follow at H. Simms Cemetery, Loops Road, W.Va.
Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday evening at the funeral home.
Arrangements by Wallace & Wallace, Rainelle.
- [S413] Obituary, SIMMS. Harold Wilson, 19 Dec 2007, 5047. (Reliability: 2).
- [S113] A. Simms to D. Benelli, 17 Aug 1999, 38.
- [S519] Obituary, Sims, Lue A., (Newspaper Item Obtained February 4, 2002 from Karen Kessler Cottrill), 5047.
- [S698] Obituary, Simms, Beulah M., (Register-Herald Obtained October 10, 2004), 5047.
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