Obit of Sims, Howard - Creek County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 9 Oct 1997

Howard Sims

PAMPA - Howard Sims, 76, died Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1997.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors 
Colonial Chapel with the Rev. John Glover, associate pastor of First 
Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.

Mr. Sims was born in Drumright, Okla., and moved to Lefors in 1928. He 
graduated from Lefors High School in 1942 and moved to Pampa that same 
year.

He married Ruth Kratzer in 1942 at Pampa.

Mr. Sims enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1942 and served during World War 
II aboard a landing ship tank. He was the former owner and operator of 
Electric Motor and Equipment Co.

He was a member of First Baptist Church for more than 50 years and a 
member of the Everyman's Bible Class. He also was a member of the Pampa 
Shriners and Pampa Masonic Lodge No. 966 AF&AM.

Mr. Sims was a former member and officer of the Pampa Evening Lions Club. 
He was active with the High Plains Eye Bank and was active in taking local 
youths to the Texas Lions Crippled Children's Home.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Patricia Anne Gotcher of 
Houston and Virginia Leigh Leonard of Rowlett; three brothers, Bill Sims 
and Wayne Sims, both of Pampa, and Harold Sims of Lefors; and two 
grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to Hospice of the Panhandle, P.O. Box 
2795, Pampa, Texas 79066-2795; or a favorite charity.
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