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Submitted: 12/23/21 • Approved: 12/28/21 • Last Updated: 12/31/21 • R474990-G0-S3
LIEUTENANT US Navy
Vietnam
Persian Gulf
May 28, 1951-February 23, 1999
*Photo/Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER - Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Jesse "Louie" Simmons, 47, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1999.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Morton with the Rev. Danny Jackson, pastor, officiating, and at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Wheeler with the Rev. Chris Ford of Amarillo and the Rev. Toby Henson, pastor, officiating. Burial, with military honors, will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
Mr. Simmons was born in Wheeler. He was a graduate of Wheeler High School and attended Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee. He graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor of science degree and graduated from Columbia University with a physician's assistant degree. Mr. Simmons served in the U.S. Navy for 23 years before retiring. After retiring, he was employed at Cochran Memorial Hospital as physician's assistant in Morton.
He married Carla Corristan Sauder in 1997 in Clovis, N.M.
Survivors include his wife of Morton; a daughter, Kay Simmons of Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.; a stepson, Travis Sauder of Morton; his parents, Virgil and Joann Simmons of Wheeler; three brothers, Steve Simmons of Bellevue and Weldon Simmons and Walter Simmons of Wheeler; a sister, of Deleise Brown of Amarillo; his grandmothers, Hestel Killingsworth of Wheeler and Verna Abernathy of Wheeler; and four grandchildren.
The body will be available for viewing from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home in Wheeler.
Memorials may be sent to the American Cancer Society.
Please see Simmons Family Marker
Contributed on 12/23/21
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