Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Friday, March 25, 1966

MRS. ODELL SIMS

CENTER, Tex. -- Funeral services for Mrs. Odell Sims, 42, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Mangum Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Louis Johnson officiating.

Burial will be in the Mt. Herman Cemetery in Shelby County. Mrs. Sims died Wednesday in a Shreveport hospital from burns received in a fire in her home in Center Monday night. She was taken to a Center hospital for emergency treatment then transferred to Shreveport.

Survivors are her husband; two sons, James Wayne Simes and Billie D. Sims both of Center; one daughter, Jackie Gail Sims of Center; three sisters, Mrs. Josie Mancil and Mrs. Zora Jackson both of Center and Mrs. Jewel Fountain of San Augustine.