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Sylvester S. Simmons 12-1989 Submitted by: Tim Dotterer
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Funeral services for Sylvester S. Simmons, 88, will be at 1:30 PM Friday, at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Mike Jared officiating. Burial will be in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery directed by Goodwin Funeral Home. Simmons died December 4, 1989, in an Alva hospital.
He was born February 14, 1901, in Ringwood to Frank T. And Gertrude Miller Simmons. He attended Oak Center School near Ringwood, later attending high school in Oklahoma City. He attended Stella Friends Academy near Cherokee.
He married Olive Mae Lodge June 3, 1948, in Okarche. She died in November this year.
They farmed at Billings and Ringwood and lived in Wichita, Kansas, before moving to Cherokee in 1931. They farmed northeast of Cherokee for six years, then farmed 6 miles south of Cherokee from 1937 until they retired in 1982 and moved to Alva.
He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Odd Fellows Lodge 219 in Cherokee and Alva Lodge 43. He was past noble grand of the Cherokee Lodge and served as district deputy in 1972–73. He was a member of Encampment 48 in Alva.
Surviving are two sons, Donald of Tulsa and Delbert of Watkins, Colorado; one brother, Fred of Alva; one sister, Marie Lodge of Cherokee; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Beadles Nursing Home in Alva.
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