Starkville News June 26 1936

Mrs. Simpson, 84, is Buried Monday

Starkville Lady Dies at Daughters Home, is Old Resident

Funeral Services for Mrs. J. A. Simpson, 84, respected Starkville
lady and member of a prominent Oktibbeha family were held
Monday from the Pleasant Ridge Church near Longview by
Dr. J. D. Ray, pastor of the Starkville Baptist Church.  Interment
was in the cemetery there.

Mrs. Simpson died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
L. R. Phillips.  She had been a prominent member of the Baptist
Church since childhood.  Mrs. Simpson was born in South
Carolina moving from there with her parents when a little girl to
Macon.  She had been a resident of Oktibbeha County about fifty
years.

She leaves one daughter, Mrs. L. R. Phillips, Starkville; three sons,
J. T. Simpson and J. L. Simpson, of Starkville, and B. F. Simpson of
Macon.

Obituary Photographed and donated by Mary Whitaker Davis.
Transcribed by Clare Herrick.