FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR
DEACON DOCTOR SIMS, Sr. Wednesday, December 11, 1968
3:30 P. M. St. Mark Baptist Church Gadsden South Carolina
REV. HARRY GREEN, Pastor REV. W. H. NEAL, Officiating
OBITUARY
Again, death has invaded the rank of St. Mark Baptist Church and carried away a very dutiful member.
"Life is but a working day, A time to work, a time to pray; And then comes death, This comes to all."
On occasions like this, one is often called upon to render active service when the feeling would imply silence rather than words. In this spirit we approach this duty at this time. The call of death is an event that is forever occuring around us within the range of our families, acquaintances and church members.
Deacon Doctor Sims, Sr., son of the late Doctor and Mrs. Betty Campbell Sims died at his home Sunday, December 8, 1968 at 1:05 A. M. At a very early age he joined the St. Mark Baptist Church where he worked very faithfully in the Sunday School for many years. Because of faithfulness and interest in the church, he was selected as one of its trustees. During his trusteeship^ he served as church secretary for over 10 years. In 1945, he was ordained as a deacon of St. Mark and he retained this position until his death. In addition to loyally serving in the general church program, he was very active in No. 1 Missionary Society.
We all agree that the St. Mark family has lost a most pleasant, cooperative, dependable, loving and faithful member, but our hearts are sustained when we realize that our loss is Heaven's gain.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ollie Marshall Sims, Gadsden, two sons, Henry Marshall Sims, Columbia, and Doctor David Sims, Gadsden; two daughters, Mrs. Ollie V. Sims, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Margaret B. Sims Goodwin, Columbia; one sister, Mrs. Dorcas Adams, Gadsden; two daughters-in-law, Mrs. Esther Ruth Butler Sims, Columbia, and Mrs. Hattie Jacques Sims, Gadsden; two sons-in-law, Isom Sims, Cleveland, Ohio, and Arthur Goodwin, Columbia; 15 grandchildren, 17 nieces and nephews and many other sorrowing relatives and friends.
ORDER OF SERVICE
Processional
Hymn . . . . No. 648 ........
"Servant of God, Well Done"
S c rip tu re ........ Psalms 23
.............. Rev. M. C. Fennell
Prayer .................................. .............. Rev. Willie Tucker
Hymn ..................................
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Remarks ............................
........................ Musical Choir .......... Dea. William Moseley
Solo ......................................
. .. . Miss Ethel Mae Sumter
Obituary and Condolences
E u lo g y ......................
Pastor
Viewing of Remains
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Rev. Harry Gree^r
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Recessional
In te rm e n t................
St. Mark Baptist Church Cemetery
FLORAL BEARERS
Mrs. Minnie Nathan Mrs. Mary Adams Mrs. Fannie Mosley Mrs. Lottie Sims
Mrs. Rebecca Nathan Mrs. Janie Sims Mrs. Wihlemena Goodwin Mrs. Ludell James
HONORARY PALLBEARERS
Deacon Board of St. Mark Baptist Church
Dea. Frank Adams Dea. William Nathan Dea. William Mosley
Dea. John Sims Dea. Benjamin Jones Dea. Doctor Adams
ACTIVE PALLBEARERS
Nephews of the Deceased
Woodrow Garrett
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Frank Adams Doctor Adams
Jacob Garrett josepn uuixvit John Adams Roosevelt Garrett
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The family wishes to acknowledge and thank you for your expressions of sympathy by cards, flowers, telegrams, use of cars, officiating ministers, pulpit associates, floral bearers, organizations, and all persons for all of the many ways you so tenderly expressed your sympathy in the passing of their loved one. The family will always remember with grateful ap preciation your every kindness to them during their bereavement.