Obituary of Mrs.Dixie Blissard Simsof Richland Parish Louisiana
as published in the Monroe News Star, March 11, 2006
Submitted by for the USGenWeb Archives by Dot Golliher, 03/11/2006



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Mrs. Dixie B. Sims
Services for Mrs. Dixie Blissard Sims 85 of Rayville, LA 
will be 2:00 PM, Saturday, March 11, 2006 at Rayville United 
Methodist Church with Rev. Ted Freeland officiating. Interment 
will follow in Rayville Masonic Cemetery under the direction of 
Mulhearn Funeral Home Rayville, LA. 

Mrs. Dixie was a member of Rayville United Methodist Church and 
The Something More Sunday School Class a charter member of the 
Rayville Arts and Civic Club and Past member of the Louisiana 
Ladies Golf Association. A loving Mother, Grandmother and friend. 
She was preceded in death by her parents, Josiah and Zola Mae 
Blissard; husband, DeSha Sims; daughter, Sherry Sims Williams; 
father and mother-in-law, Hoytt Sims and Annie Louise DeSha Sims; 
brother, Doris Blissard and sister, Irene Deatheridge. 

She is survived by her daughter, Jacklyn Sims Branch and her 
husband, Larry G. of Rayville, LA; a son, Hoytt DeSha Sims, Jr. 
and his wife, Mary of Rayville, LA; son-in-law, Sam O. Williams 
of Rayville, LA; sisters, Betty Baines of Big Springs, TX and 
Joann Ridgeway of Lubock, TX; grandchildren, Mark K. Branch and 
his wife, Amy, David J. Branch and his wife, Evelyn, R. Ken 
Branch and his wife, Jenny, J. Dan Branch and his wife, Nikkole, 
Hoytt Desha Sims, III, N. Chandler Sims, Samantha Ann Williams 
McIness and her husband, Proctor and Wendy Paige Williams Carbo 
and her husband, Jeff; step grandchildren, Jason Bradley Clark 
and his wife, Molly and R. Brandon Clark; great grandchildren, 
Matthew, Jacob, Blake, David Joe, Connor, Haleigh, Maryanna, 
Erin, Mallory, Emily and Katelyn Branch, Lawson and Sterrett, 
McIness, Will Carbo and Jada Clark along with a host of nieces 
and nephews and faithful friend Rosa Webb. 

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. 

Honorary pallbearers will be members of The Something More Sunday 
School Class. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Methodist Children's 
Home in Ruston, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital or The Rayville 
United Methodist Church. 

Visitation will be today from 1:00 PM until service time at the church.