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- Obit from Find a Grave
Jerry D. Sims, 73, passed away May 16, 2008, in Baker, Florida. He was born March 8, 1935, in Ada.
Jerry married Janet Lucile Newbrough on May 25, 1958, at
Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 21 years. After retiring from the USAF, he worked for Vitro Services in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
He was an active member of Chapel Hill Baptist Church in Florala, Alabama. He was ordained as a Deacon at Bethany Baptist Church in Crane Hill, Alabama. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and boating. He also enjoyed gold-mining while residing in California and Arizona.
He was proud of his Choctaw heritage. His grandmother, Sally K. LeFlore Ward, was an original enrollee of the Choctaw Nation.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Nellie Ward Sims; his father, D.A. Sims; and a niece, Kelly Marie Sims.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Becky S. Owens and husband Donald W. and Lori Ann Fry; two sons, Jerry B. Sims and wife Karen and Dennis W. Sims and wife LeAnne; 15 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Shirley Krieger andhusband Steve; one brother, Kenneth Sims; three nieces and seven nephews.
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