Obituary: Gean Simmons 1945 :Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

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Submitted by: Mary Becker mkbeck01@louisville.edu
Date: June 10, 2001
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Gean Simmons, 35 Listed as Killed on German Front
Telegram Received by Wife Friday of Husbands Death on March 12

Gean Simmons, 35, was killed in action in Germany on March 12 (1945),
according to information received from the War Department by his wife, who
resides in Central City.

Simmons, who was employed at the Black Diamond Mind in Drakesboro previous
to induction, had been in the Army almost a year, being inducted March 22,
1944.  He is a former resident of the Nebo community, Central City, Route 1.
He arrived in France in January.

Besides his wife he is survived by three children, Betty, Wanda and Billy
Ray Simmons.