Simmons, George W. (Dr.)

Passed: 1951-06-11

Age: 73

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1951-06-13

Information: LONG ILLNESS PROVES FATAL - Dr. George W. Simmons, 73 year old Ripley physician, died at his home here about nine o'clock on Monday morning.  He had been ill for the past three years and for several days his condition had been critical and death had been expected.  The funeral service will be held this (Wednesday) afternoon at two o'clock from the Ripley Evangelical United Brethren church and the burial will be in the Pleasant Valley cemetery at Kenna.  Rev. Ralph Mahoney and Rev. George E. Thomas will officiate at the service.  The body is at the Vail mortuary and will remain there until an hour before the time for the service when it will be taken to the church.   Dr. Simmons was a widely known physician, and in addition to his profession was actively identified with numerous business and farm activities, one of which was the Bank of Ripley, where he had served as a member of the board of directors for 25 years.  He was a member of the Odd Fellows, Ripley Chamber of Commerce, West Virginia Medical Association, Phi Chi fraternity and numerous other organizations.   He was born at Kenna on May 30, 1878, a son of the late Eli and Elizabeth Shinn Simmons. He attended schools in this county and as a young man enrolled in Maryland Medical College from which he was graduated in 1903.  He began the practice of his profession at Kenna and continued it for a number of years when he came to Ripley, where he engaged in practice for more than a quarter of a century.  On June 25, 1905, he married Miss Emily Parsons, who survives him, as does two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Reynolds and Mrs. Lenora Jenkins, both of Ripley; four sisters, Mrs. Emma Greene of Fairplain, Mrs. Ella Greene of Ripley, Mrs. Canna Lee of Dunbar and Mrs. Mollie Kiser of Kenna and two grandchildren, George David Reynolds and Emmy Lou Jenkins, both of Ripley.  Two children preceded him in death.