Reburial Rites To Be Held for T-Sgt. Jack Sims Jackson Parish,
Louisiana
Source: Jackson Independent January 27, 1950
ubmitted by: Sharon K. Ray
Date: July 2, 2003

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Reburial rites for Technical Sergeant Jack Sims whose death occurred
in a Japanese prison camp on June 17, 1942, will be held at old
Siloam church, two and one-half miles east of Wyatt on Sunday
afternoon, February 5, at two o'clock. The remains will arrive in
Jonesboro on Friday, February 3. Full military rites will be
conducted and interment will be under the direction of Edmonds
Funeral Home.Sergeant Sims, youngest son of Mr. And Mrs. L. Page
Sims, of Jonesboro, enlisted for service on November 1, 1941, at
Barksdale Field in Shreveport. He was shipped overseas almost
immediately and participated in several major battles against the
Japanese. He was captured in the fall of Corregidor and lived
through the "Death March" inflicted on prisoners of war, but his
death is reported to have occurred just one month and 10 days after
the march.