Obituaries
Hiram G. Sims
LOOGOOTEE — Hiram G. Sims, 76, died at 3:55 p.m. Tuesday at Martin County Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center.
Born Jan. 18, 1933, in Dover Hill, he was the son of William Curtis and Ella (Ritchey) Sims.
A graduate of Shoals High School, he was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. He had been a car salesman, with a career that spanned 40 years, for Laverne Terry Ford, Bill Dobson Ford, Albright Chevyland and Martin County Motors. He was a member of American Legion Post No. 61, White River Masonic Lodge F. & A.M. and Murat Shrine Temple of Indianapolis.
He is survived by his wife, Carolyn E. (Harder) Sims, whom he married Sept. 28, 1957, at the Hindostan Methodist Church; four daughters and their husbands, Lu Ann and David Dye of Shoals, Beth Brown of Reading, Pa., Donna and Chris Beckman of Forsyth, Ill., and Marsha and Tim Lynch of Jasper; eight grandchildren, Zachary Brown of Bloomington, Ashley Brown of Rising Sun, Lindsay Beth (Lynch) Bender of Hillsboro, Ohio, Cody W. and Alyssa T. Lynch of Jasper, Katie, Curt and Caroline Beckman of Forsyth, Ill.; two great-grandsons, Eli Turner of Rising Sun and Dylan Bender of Hillsboro, Ohio; three sisters, Roma Sims of Indianapolis, Carolyn Sims-Stein of Carmel, and Wanda Fischer of Fairfax Station, Va.; and two brothers, James D. and Jerry Sims, both of Florida.
He is preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Keith and Billy Sims; and one sister, Norma Joann Walter.
The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Queen-Lee Funeral Home, Shoals, with Pastor Delbert Stoll officiating. Burial will be in Goodwill Cemetery, Loogootee, with military graveside rites by Shoals American Legion.
Visitation is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, with Masonic memorial rites at 7:30 p.m., at the funeral home.
Preferred Memorials are to the Shriners Hospital for Cripple Children. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.
(Sept. 15, 2009)
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Cecilia Atchley
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Helen B. Williams
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Kenny Roark
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Paul Patterson
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