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   James E. Simons
   MESA, Ariz. - James E. "Si" Simons, 73, a former Dumas, Texas,
   resident, died Monday, June 7, 1999.
   
   Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Spring Creek Baptist Church at
   Willow, Okla. Burial will be in the Willow Cemetery by People Co-Op of
   Lone Wolf, Okla.
   
   Mr. Simons was born in Kenefic, Okla., and was raised around the
   Willow/Ocina areas before moving to Dumas in 1942. He was a World War
   II veteran of the European and Pacific theaters. He worked for
   Phillips Petroleum Co. for 38 years, retiring in 1983.
   
   He married Lavita Brinkman in 1943 at Altus, Okla. She died in 1987.
   
   He married Nita Gay Franklin Martin in 1991 at Dumas.
   
   Survivors include his wife, Nita; two sons, James Rodney Simons of
   Borger, Texas, and Gary Lee Martin of Elk City, Okla.; two
   grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
   
   The family requests memorials be to Department of Veterans Affairs
   Medical Center Hospice, 6010 W. Amarillo Blvd., Amarillo, TX 79106.