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                           OA Online Obituaries.
                                      
                              January 05, 2001
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
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                              James Lewis Sims
                                      
    ODESSA James Lewis Sims, 87, died at a local hospital in Odessa, TX,
      on January 2, 2001 after a brief illness. A private memorial is
                                  planned.
                                      
     He was born in Purcell, Okla. on December 19, 1913 and raised on a
     dairy farm. After high school, he worked for Haliburton in the oil
    fields of West Texas in the 1930s. He was a veteran of World War II,
    serving in the Sea Bees in the South Pacific. In the 1950s he was a
   manufactures representative selling oil field equipment and he served
      as a junior warden at St. Johns Episcopal Church for a number of
                                   years.
                                      
   He later owned his own business, Sims Equipment Company, that sold oil
      field equipment. From 1967 until 1983 he and his wife owned and
     operated the Paint Bucket, an arts and crafts business in Odessa.
                                      
    Mr. Sims took an active part in the activities of his sons including
   acting as a Boy Scout Troop Leader for the troop at St. Marys Catholic
    Church where his sons attended grade school. A two-day hike with the
        troop from Buffalo Gap to Horse Head Crossing made a lasting
                 impression on the young boys of the troop.
                                      
     Mr. Sims was preceded in death by his parents Henry David Sims and
    Martha Ann "Lena" Cummings Sims of Waurika, OK; by his older brother
   Roy Sims of Graham, TX; and by his wife Gwyneth of 44 years, who died
                                  in 1994.
                                      
   Mr. Sims is survived by his sons: James L. Sims, Jr. of Fort Worth, TX
    and by David Bort Sims and his wife Cindy of San Antonio, TX; by his
    sister Madean Rush of Enid, OK, and her daughter Donna Rush Lamb and
     family; and by his nephew LeRoy Sims and family of Dallas, TX. Mr.
   Sims was previously married to Lucy Ann Byron Kennard with whom he had
   a daughter, Sally. He is survived by his daughter Sally Van Hooser and
     her family: children Tom, Tim and Stephanie; and by Toms children
                           Brittany and Matthew.
                                      
             Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
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