Obituaries: William Louis Simmons, 1964, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 6, 1964 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

W. L. Simmons Last Rites Held At Liberty Chapel

William Louis Simmons, 63, died July 31 in a Winnfield hospital after a
lengthy illness.  He was a retired railroad section foreman.

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. August 1, in the Liberty Chapel Methodist
Church in Williana, with Rev. Ed Pickens officiating.  Burial was in the
church cemetery under direction of Hixson Funeral Home of Winnfield.

Pallbearers were Lonnie Cotton, C. E. Langston, Earl J. Durran, W. E. Deville,
Alvin Dryden, and Orville Slayter.

Masonic graveside rites were conducted.

Survivors are his widow; two sons, Lorrand O. Simmons of Houston, Texas, and
Vollie Simmons of St. Louis, Mo.; two daughters, Mrs. Sammy Nell Murray of
DeWitt, Ark., and Mrs. Barbara Font of New Orleans; two brothers, Jesse
Simmons of Pollock and Henry Simmons of Delhi; a sister, Mrs. Artie Deloney
of Pollock, and eight grandchildren.