Wilma Sims

The funeral for Mrs. Wilma Jo Sims will be Monday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the J.H. Churchill Funeral Home. John Dale will officiate. Pallbearers will be Austin Sims, Adam Sims, Cliff Higginson, Rudy Lovett, Kelly Crouse, Barry Futrell and Dan McKeel, active, and Jo Pat Ward, honorary. Burial will follow in the Murray Memorial Gardens. Visitation is now at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to Murray Calloway County Hospice House, 803 Poplar St., Murray, KY 42071.
Mrs. Sims, 82, Murray, died Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, at her home. She was a retired bookkeeper for J.H. Shackelford and Murray Water District #1. She was of Baptist faith.
Preceding her in death were her parents, Joe Wilburn and Suella Evans Futrell; two brothers, James and William Futrell; two sisters, Virginia Brandon and Juanita Cohoon; one niece, Anita Carolyn Crouse.
Survivors include her husband, Joe Sims; two sons, Richard Sims and wife, Jewelyn, Washington, D.C., and Rusty Sims and wife, Lesa, Murray; three grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; one great-grandchild; several nieces and nephews.