Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Simmons, Margaret Norman January 10, 2002
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Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - Sunday, January 13, 2002 
Dr. Margaret Norman Simmons , Assistant Professor of English at Hampton
University, of the 2800 block of Myrtle Ave., died Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002, at
her home.

A native of Lincolton, Ga., Dr. Simmons was reared in Asheville, N .C. She was a
wife and mother of three children. After graduating magna cum laude from
Grambling State University and receiving a master's degree in English from Old
Dominion University, Dr. Simmons earned a Ph.D. in English from the University
of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Simmons was a member of the Hampton University faculty from September 1968
until her death. She was a master teacher and in 1991 she was presented with the
Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching award. Currently, she
was Avalon Professor of Humanities at the university. She served as the Chair of
the University's Ceremonial Occasions Committee and faculty advisor to the
Hampton Script. She was Chair of the University's Sexual Harrassment Committee
and advisor to the Calliope Literary Society. As a scholar, she published works
on Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Church Terrell, Ethel Waters and Sylvia Wallace
Horton. Dr. Simmons also served as a consultant to the Educational Testing
Service in Princeton, N .J., and the U.S. Office of Education.

Dr. Simmons was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., and the Holidays
Inc. She served on the board of the Norfolk Senior Center.

Her husband, Dr. Charles W. Simmons and a daughter, Dr. Kay M. Simmons preceded
her in death. She is survived by a son, Charles Willis Simmons III; a daughter,
Lyn M. Simmons Jones; a grandson, Jerrauld Charles Corey Jones; a sister,
Mildred N . Washington of Philadelphia; son-in-law, Jerrauld C. Jones; nieces,
nephews and many friends.

A funeral will be held Monday at noon at the Basilica of St. Mary of the
Immaculate Conception. Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery. Hale Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to
the Margaret N . Simmons Scholarship Fund at Hampton University. 

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Calvary Cemetery

SIMMONS, MARGARET N I16236 Section 12A, Block 12A, Space 38 0 01/10/2002

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