Bio Vern A. & Mildred Rachael Ward Simpson  - Logan County, Oklahoma 

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Biography on Vern A. Simpson and Mildred Rachael Ward Simpson

Vern A. Simpson was born August 21st, 1902 in Brookville, Missouri.  He
was the son of Seymour Cyrus Simpson and Bertie M. (VanWy) Simpson. When
he was 5 years old his family moved from Missouri to Guthrie, Oklahoma.  
Vern A. Simpson had 2 brothers, Wayne A. and Ernest Lee Simpson.  Ernest 
Lee Simpson was killed in France during WWI.

Vern married Mildred Rachel Ward October 31st, 1927 in Guthrie.  Mildred  
was the daughter of Charles Calvin Ward and Mamie Ethyl Rathbun of Marshall
and later they moved to Guthrie.   Charles Calvin Ward rode with his family
in the Cherokee Strip land rush.  Mildred was born November 6, 1907 in 
Marshall, Oklahoma.  She  had 2 brothers and 2 sisters.  Euclid Ward, 
Bernice Purviance, Juanita Phillips and Charles Ward.

Vern and Mildred traveled with the Sante Fe Railroad from 1927 through 1944
where Vern Simpson was employed on a steel bridge crew.   During that time 
their two children were born.  Ramona Lea (Simpson) Hadlock and Ernest Lyle
Simpson.   Ramona Lea (Simpson) Hadlock married Ed Hadlock of Oklahoma City
and had 4 children, Robin, Jennifer, Christopher, and Douglas.   Ernest 
Simpson married Sue Miller and had 4 children, Pam, Janet, Jeff and Jane.

When Vern retired from the Sante Fe Railroad, he and Mildred started a
dairy and farmed 320 acres southeast of Guthrie.  In 1966 they moved to
Guthrie and lived on South Division.  This is where they opened a dairy 
farm and sold milk.  People came a great distance to buy raw milk from 
them.  In 1968 they sold the farm and retired to a home on Allen Road in 
Guthrie.  Vern worked part-time for his son Ernest Simpson who owned 
Simpson Oil Company.  Vern died May 6th, 1975 and Mildred died June 16, 
1984 in Guthrie.