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Submitted: 8/30/22 • Approved: 8/30/22 • Last Updated: 9/2/22 • R534431-G534429-S3
E. R. (Dick) Sims
June 30, 1912-January 22, 2011
Please see military marker
Ola Irene Partington Sims
August 10, 1918-August 6, 1995
Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary E.R. (Dick) Sims
HEREFORD - Elmer Richard Sims Jr., 98, died Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011.
A Service of Witness to the Resurrection will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in First Presbyterian Church of Hereford with the Rev. Joan Gaines, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery by Parkside Chapel Funeral Home.
Mr. Sims was born June 30, 1912, in Cardenas, Cuba, to Elmer Richard Sr. and Elizabeth Dobbs Sims. He married Ola Irene Partington on July 12, 1950, in Phoenix.
Survivors include a daughter, Paige Shelton of Hereford; and three grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to First Presbyterian Church, 610 Lee Ave., Hereford, TX 79045; or Hereford Senior Citizens, 426 Ranger Drive, Hereford, TX 79045.
Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 25, 2011
*Obituary Ola Irene Partington Sims
Ola Sims
Aug. 6, 1995
Ola Sims, 76, died Sunday at her Hereford home.
Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Rose Chapel of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home with the Rev. Jeremy Grant, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery, by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Sims was born in Rock Springs, Wyo, and lived in Austin before moving to Hereford in 1994. A graduate of the University of Wyoming, Mrs. Sims worked as an executive assistant in general businesses. She married E.R. Sims in 1950 in Phoenix, Ariz. She was a Presbyterian.
Survivors are her husband; two daughters, Paige Arnold of Hereford and Nene Glenn of Houston, and three grandchildren.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 95th Year, Vol. No. 25, Deaf Smith County, Texas, Tuesday, August 8, 1995, Page 2)
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Arizona, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1865-1972
Name: Ola Irene Trollope
Gender: Female
Affidavit or License Age: 31
Affidavit or License Date: 12 Jul 1950
License Place: Maricopa, Arizona, USA
Spouse: Elmer Richard Sims
Description: Marriage Affidavits, 1950
Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ola Sims
Death Date: 6 Aug 1995
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Ola Irene Partington [Ola I Trollope] [Ola Sims]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 10 Aug 1918
Birth Place: Rock Springs, Wyoming [Rock Springs??, Wyoming]
Death Date: 6 Aug 1995
Father: Paul Partington
Mother: Margaret Blair
Notes: Nov 1938: Name listed as OLA IRENE PARTINGTON; Oct 1941: Name listed as OLA I TROLLOPE; May 1960: Name listed as OLA IRENE SIMS; 17 Aug 1995: Name listed as OLA I SIMS
Contributed on 8/30/22 by neldapat
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