Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Sunday, June 19, 1966

CLELL SIMMONS

DERIDDER -- Funeral services for Clell Simmons, 62, will be in Hopewell Baptist Church near DeRidder at 2 p.m. today, with the Rev. Farley Green, the Rev. T. C. Hogan and the Rev. Wilburn Ashworth officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Hixson Funeral Home.

Mr. Johnson [sic Simmons] died at 5:50 a.m. Saturday in a DeRidder hospital.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Simmons of DeRidder; one daughter, Elsie Simmons of Lake Charles; one grandson, Iocl [Jocl?] Watson with the armed services in France; his father, Ezra Simmons of DeRidder; two brothers, Jeff Simmons of DeRidder and Aubrey Simmons of Beaumont.