Beckham County, OK - Obits: Joseph Thomas Sims, 1930
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SIMS, JOSEPH THOMAS
(15 Apr 1930, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
SIMS FUNERAL IS HELD HERE
Brother of Edd Sims and Miss Emma Sims, of This City, Succumbs.
Funeral services for Joseph Thomas Sims were held at 2:30 Tuesday
afternoon in the Grubitz and Son Funeral Home, with Rev. C. V. Covey,
pastor of the First Christian church officiating.
Mr. Sims had not been in good health for some time and succumbed to
pneumonia at the home of his brother, Edd Sims, here Monday.  Mr. Sims had
lived in Breckenridge, Tex., for the past ten years, but he has been at
the home of his brother here for some time.
Mr. Sims was born December 25, 1867, in Fulton, Missouri.  When four years
of age, he moved with his parents, to Texas where he lived until 1898 when
he came to Elk City.  He became a member of the First Christian church
when a young man.  He was married to Mrs. Georgia Yates, March 12, 1906.
Besides his widow he leaves two brothers, R. E. Simms, of this city, and
W. W. Sims, of Poteau; and four sisters, Miss Emma Sims, of Elk City, Mrs.
Dora McClendon, of Norman, Mrs. L. M. Carlton, of Clinton and Mrs. F.
Ragains, of Bokoshe.
Interment was made in the Fairlawn Cemetery.  Grubitz and Son funeral
directors were in charge of arrangements.

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