Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
NameJames Howard SIMPSON 3, James Howard Simpson,518,3, Mary Elizabeth Simpson Ward,470, James Howard Simpson,404, North Carolina, County Marriages(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP9B-9PGX : 10 March 2021), Joseph Raleigh Simpson and Patricia Phelps Taylor, 8 Apr 1993; citing Caswell, North Carolina, ,404, North Carolina, Department of Archives and History(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CSH1-5SN2 : 15 February 2020), Joseph Raleigh Simpson, 1942; citing Birth, Morton Twp, Alamance, North Carolina,404, North Carolina Birth Index(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCHM-CWQ : 8 December 2014), Howard Simpson in entry for Fay Catherine Simpson, 1944; from "North Carolina,,404, United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY4-8772 : accessed 16 March 2021), Raleigh Simpson in entry for James Howard Simpson, North Carolina,3, Joseph Raleigh Simpson, Sr.,134, BIRTH- -SIMPSON, BELINDA MAE
BirthJun 23, 1922, Alamance County, North Carolina3, James Howard Simpson
DeathSep 22, 2009, Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina3, James Howard Simpson,404, United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY4-8772 : accessed 16 March 2021), Raleigh Simpson in entry for James Howard Simpson, North Carolina
BurialRandolph Memorial Park, N Fayetteville St, Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina3, James Howard Simpson
MotherMyrtle Mae KERNODLE (1895-1935)
Spouses
BirthJan 8, 1921, Alamance County, North Carolina470, Vera Gillette Terrell Simpson
DeathSep 4, 2009, Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina3, James Howard Simpson,470, Vera Gillette Terrell Simpson
BurialRandolph Memorial Park, N Fayetteville St, Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina470, Vera Gillette Terrell Simpson
Marriage1940518
Obituary Online notes for James Howard SIMPSON
9/23/2009

James H. Simpson


    ASHEBORO — James Howard Simpson, age 87, of 579 N. Oakdale St., Asheboro died Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at his home.
    Funeral services will be conducted on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 2 p.m. at the Pugh Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Billy R. Self officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memorial Park.
    Mr. Simpson was born on June 23, 1922 in Alamance County, N.C. to Joseph William Arthur Simpson and Myrtle Mae Kernodle Simpson. He began working for Barnwell Brothers at the age of 17 and in 1980 retired from Burlington Industries as a truck driver. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife of 69 years, Vera Gillette Terrell Simpson, his parents, his brother, William Roland Simpson, and his sister, Maggie Delia Cook. James loved working in his garden.
    He is survived by his daughter, Dorothy Ray and her husband Don of Graham, N.C.; son, Raleigh Simpson and his wife Pat of Graham, N.C.; daughter, Faye Webster and her husband Jack of Asheboro, N.C.; son, Jay Simpson and his wife Donna of Asheboro, N.C.; son, Tommy Simpson and his wife JoAnne of Asheboro, N.C.; daughter, Belinda Hayes and her husband Frank of Asheboro, N.C.; 20 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren;
sister, Mary Elizabeth Ward; brother, Joseph Simpson; and sister, Agnus S. Lilly.
    The family will receive friends on Friday, September 25, 2009 from 12 until 2 p.m. at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro, N.C.
    Memorials may be made to Hospice of Randolph, P.O. Box 9, Asheboro, NC 27204-0009.
    Online condolences may be made at
www.pughfuneralhome.com  3, James Howard Simpson
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