Obituary of Wayne Simmons

 Wayne Simmons, age 98, was born April 24, 1921 in Kansas City, Missouri.  He grew up on a farm approximately fifty miles south of that city.  He passed away July 12, 2019.

He married Ruth Owen Dawson on February 5, 1941.  They had one daughter who also lives in Sapulpa.  He has two grandchildren who live in the Chicago area.

After serving three years in the U.S. Naval Reserve Aviation Corps he returned to Missouri and was employed as a livestock feed salesman for a national company.  Later the family moved to Miami, Oklahoma where he was a deacon and youth teacher at First Baptist church.

He later entered the life insurance business.  He and Ruth moved to Sapulpa in 1979 where he had an office for Business Men’s Assurance.  He was the director of United Way for the city of Sapulpa in 1989.

Wayne grew up in a Baptist family.  His father and two uncles were deacons in the church.  In spite of that background he felt so welcomed and so at home here at St. James.

He taught Sunday school classes of single college age students and later taught young married people’s classes at First Baptist Church in Tulsa.

He is survived by one daughter, Karen Miller and husband Bob, granddaughter Teri Wead, and husband Jim, grandson Darroll Miller and wife Darcie, great grandchildren, Robert Jeff, Abbie, and Sam and great-great granddaughters Isabella and Willa.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests a donation to your favorite charity.

Memorial Service - 2:00pm Saturday July 27, 2019 St. James Presbyterian Church 11970 S. Elm St. Jenks, Ok. 918 299 9988

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