Tom and Susan Sims

(12 November 1933 - )

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Tommy Sims

[1951]



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SHS '51 Pictures


Stamps High School Class of 1951

[May 1951]

Mrs. Doherty - Kalene Thomas - Jimmy Farley - Bill Grimmett - Bette Baker - Edward Hatfield - Harold McKamie - Ann Williams - Peggy Jane Pelt - Georgia Ann Langley - U.B. Bond, Jr. - Myrtle Sue Peck - Donald Hooper

Gay Weed - Catherine Strange - Bobbie Bolton - Kathryn Franklin Hurley - Delilah Owen - Mary Nell Minter - Peggy Harding - Clara Teague - Esther Mae Keith - Martha Cearley - Lucille Wallace - Charles Mackey

Tommy Sims - Barbara Powell - Billy Kuykendall - Leroy Lamb - Ann Hudgens - Mary Morgan, Dorothy Baker - David Paul Lovell - Richard Boyd - Jimmy Nix - Virginia Guttry - Joe Dan Oglesby - Clara Hamm (Not Pictured: Leonard Benefield)



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Stamps High School Class of 1951

[October 2001]

Kalene Thomas Farley - Kathryn Franklin Hurley - Delilah Owen Minter - Ann Williams McKenzie - U.B. Bond - Myrtle Sue Peck Barr

Tom Sims - Gay Weed Grimmett - Bill Kuykendall - Bobbie Ray Bolton Irving - Ann Hudgens Russell - Dorothy Baker Hanson - Clara Teague Festervand - Lucille Wallace - Clara Hamm Mitchell



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Tom, Betsy and Susan Sims
[Palms Casino Buffet - AUG 2018]



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Betsy, Tom and Susan Sims
[LV Silverton Buffet - FEB 2017]



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Chyrrl and Richard
[Richard and Chyrrl"s Wedding - OCT 2016]

More Pictures



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Susan - Tom - Betsy and Rich Sims
[SEP 2015]



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Tom E. Sims
[APR 2009]



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Tom E. and Susan Sims
[APR 2009]



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Tom E. Sims
[DEC 2008]



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Susan Sims
[DEC 2008]



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Susan and Tom E. Sims
[Dec 2001]



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Tom E. Sims
[SHS 50th Reunion - 2001]



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Tom E. and Susan Sims
[SHS 50th Reunion - 2001]



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Tom E. Sims
[2001]



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Susan Sims
[2001]



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Susan and Tom E. Sims
[2000]



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Tom E. and Susan Sims
[2000]



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Home
[2000]



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Home
[2000]



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Our Mountains
[2000]



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Tom E. and Susan Sims
[1999]



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Children: Tom C. - Rich and Betsy Sims
[1990]



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T.R. and Roma Sims
[1970]



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Tom E. Sims
[1957]



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Tom E. Sims
[1956]



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Tom E. Sims
[1955]



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1950 Seniors

Edward Hatfield - Leonard Benefield - Charles Mackey - Jimmy Farley - Tommy Sims
Richard Boyd - Jimmy Willard - Joe Dan Oglesby - U.B. Bond - Billy Kuykendall
Regular Season: 10-0-0 - Regular Season Point Totals 286-76



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1950 District Champions
[Regular Season: 10-0-0]
Regular Season Point Totals 286-76



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SHS Cheerleaders - c1948

Dolores Hart, Ann Williams, Georgia Ann Langley, David Paul Lovell, Jean Lewis, Dorothy Petty, Sue White, Myrtle Sue Peck, Mrs. Doherty



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1948 SHS Football Team

Rear: Buddy Farley, Glen Dodson, Jimmy Willard, Raymond Wooten, Gene Owens, Calvin Jacks, Bear Eddy, Artie Clark, Billy Peck, Bobby Stevens, Tommy Jones, E W Johnson, Tommy Strange, Jesse Sanders, John Ray Hart, Charles Mackey, Frank Willis, Edward Hatfield, George Doherty Front: James Clark, Tommy Sims, Tony Rogers, Billy Martin, Joe Dan Oglesby, U B Bond, Jessie Paul Fain, Bugs Rogers, Sidney Melear, Billy Jones, Billy Kuykendall, Lynn Peevy, James Hurley



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Kalene Thomas, Delilah Owen, Gay Weed, Virginia Nell Guttry, Bobbie Ray Bolton, Mary Peace, Georgia Ann Langley, Marion Davis, ?, Catherine Strange, Mary Nell Minter, Barbara Pinkston, Bettye Jo Murphy, Shirley Dodson, Barbara Powell, Allison Keith [c1948]



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Roland - Roma - Bill and Tom E. Sims
[1947]



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Marion Davis, Georgia Ann, Ray R,
Mary M, Ann W [1947]



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SHS
[c1940's]



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Junior Boys
[1946 - 1947]



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[Third Grade 1941 - 1942]

Row 1: Bonnie Tatum, Clifford Butler Smith, X, Dale Eddy, Mary Catherine Strange, Jimmy Nix, Joe Dan Oglesby, David Paul Lovell, Donald Haltem, Annie Sue Clark, Row 2: Jimmy Cearley, Tommy Sims, Ann Hudgens, X, James Moreland, Betty Jo Murphy, Bobby Nix, Edwin Beene, Mary Nell Minter, X, Row 3: Kalene Thomas, Cozette Daugherty, Barbara Powell, Dorothy Baker, Billy Kuykendall, Patsy Sue Hamilton, X, Delilah Owen, Ann Williams, X, X, Row 4: Bette Baker, Richard Pipkin, Bobby Ormand, Donald Kersey, Gerald Burke, Virginia Brazil (teacher), X, Cearley, Charles Mackey, John Henry Shelton, Ruel Brown



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Tom E. Sims on Lake June
[Stamps AR 1941]



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[Second Grade 1940 - 1941]

Row 1: Delilah Owen, Mary Nell Minter, Annie Sue Clark, Bonnie Tatum, James Moreland, Donald Haltem, Jimmy Nix, Guy Shannon, Row 2: Tommy Sims, Clifford Butler Smith, X, Barbara Powell, Ann Williams, X, X, Cozette Daugherty, X, X, Ann Hudgens, Bobby Nix, Alice Ann Cleveland, X, Jimmy Cearley, Patsy Sue Hamilton, X, Bette Baker, Row 3: Raymond Wooton, Richard Pipkin, Ruel Brown, X, Bobby Ormand, Flora Bell Farley (teacher), X, X, Donald Kersey, X, X



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Girls: Eloise Mouser, Dorothy Baker, Ann Williams, Barbara
Powell, X, X, X, Gwen Nutt, Boys: Guy Shannon, Tommy
Sims, Bonnie Tatum [Barbara"s Birthday Party - c1940]



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[First Grade 1939 - 1940]

Row 1: Donald Kersey, X, Bobby Nix, Tommy Sims, X, Row 2: Clifford Butler Smith, James Moreland, Bonnie Tatum, Richard Pipkin, X, Billy Kuykendall, Jimmy Nix, Bobby Ormand, Guy Shannon, Edwin Beene, X, Row 3: Bette Baker, Barbara Powell, Dorothy Baker, Ann Williams, X, X, David Paul Lovell, X, X, Ann Hudgens, Mary Nell Minter, X, X, X, Row 4: Patsy Sue Hamilton, X, Donald Haltem, X, X, X, X, X, X, Vida Burke (teacher), X, X, Jimmy Cearley, X, Charles Mackey, X



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Biography

(JUN 2013)

I am a libertarian, isolationist, agnostic who practices the "Golden Rule".

I was born in Brookland AR near Jonesboro AR, on 12 November 1933 to Thomas Roland Sims and Roma Hazeline Barringer Sims. My Dad worked for the Cotton Belt Railroad as a Clerk Telegrapher and Station Master, and my Mom was a Homemaker and sometime School Teacher. I had a younger brother, Bill.

We moved to Stamps AR in 1937, moved to Pine Bluff AR for my 6th grade year and then back to Stamps. We lived in Bearden AR for my 9th grade. moved back to Stamps, and I graduated from Stamps High School in 1951.

After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point NY in 1955, I served five plus years as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force in Florida, Texas and New Jersey.

I was a Registered Representative for several NY Stock Exchange Member firms and then ran the Trust Investment Departments for several large banks in New York and New Jersey. I closed out my investment career by trading financial futures on the Chicago Board of Trade as a Member Introducing Brokerage Firm.

I was married from 1960 to 1980 to Lynn Nelson Sims and we had three children Betsy, Tom C. and Richard. My second wife was Mary Parks Sims and I married Georgia Langley Sims in 1989. Georgia and I had a very happy marriage until we lost her battle with lymphoma cancer in 1998.

Several months after I lost Georgia, I was playing video poker at the Texas Station Casino in Las Vegas when Susan Grimm started playing on the machine next to mine. I initiated a conversation (which is very out of character for me), invited her to lunch and learned that she was a tourist from Ohio who was in Las Vegas for a weekend gambling trip. We spent the rest of the weekend together and about six weeks later (after a lot of long distance calls) she had quit a very good job, sold her car and condo and retired to Las Vegas to live happily ever after with me.

And that"s how it has worked out.

We are expert video poker and live poker players and play several hours every day in a local casino and/or on the internet. Not many people make money gambling, but we do, by playing games where we have a mathematical advantage (video poker) or play better than other players (live poker).

I was probably the first to record play-by-play accounts of final table action at major poker tournaments which I did at the 1996, 1997 and 1998 World Series of Poker. My internet reports are archived on the   ConJelCo World Series of Poker  site and included  [The Andy Bloch Project]  .

I spend a lot of time every day running the  vpFREE Video Poker Group  which has over 10,000 members, the  Stamps High School Class of 1951  web site, and the  West Point Class of 1955  web site.

We love our life and we"re having a ball.



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Thomas Roland "T.R." Sims

25 July 1906 - 11 December 1984

8th Grade, Brookland AR Schools

Business College

Church Deacon

Mason

Eastern Star

A Good Man

R.I.P.


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Roma Hazeline Barringer Sims

3 June 1909 - 1 April 1996

Teaching Certificate, Arkansas A&M College 1928

Housewife and School Teacher

Church Librarian and Sunday School Teacher

Eastern Star

A Nice Lady

R.I.P.


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William D. "Bill" Sims

15 June 1938 - 19 September 2002

Services for William D. "Bill" Sims, 64, Overton, were held at 10:00 am, Thursday, September 19, 2002 at the First United Methodist Church, Overton, with the Reverend Doctor John Whitehurst and Reverend Dick Cayce officiating. Graveside services are scheduled for 3:30 pm, Thursday, at the Lakeside Cemetery, Stamps, Arkansas, under the direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton.

Mr. Sims died Monday, September 16, 2002 in an Overton nursing home. He was born June 15, 1938 in Stamps, Arkansas to the late Thomas Roland and Roma Barringer Sims. He had been a resident of the Overton area since 1974. Mr. Sims was a graduate of Ouachita Baptist College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1961. In 1972, he received his Master of Education degree from Stephen F. Austin State University. He was a football, basketball, and track coach for 3 years in the Pearland ISD, and served the Leverett"s Chapel ISD as a coach, teacher and administrator from 1970 until 1991. From 1991 until 1995 he was a math teacher at the Springhill ISD. Mr. Sims was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Overton. He married Judith L. McCarroll, April 13, 1968 in Jena, Louisiana. Survivors include his wife, Judith McCarroll Sims, Overton; a son, Dean Sims, Houston; two daughters and a son-in-law, Jill and Isaac Espino, Overton and Tana Sims, Houston; a brother, Tom Sims, Las Vegas; and a grandson, Kaleb Espino.




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Georgia Ann Langley Eby Sims
[12 NOV 1933 - 25 AUG 1998]

Georgia Ann Langley Eby Sims was born on 12 November 1933 on a farm in Manning AR, near Arkadelphia AR, to Cortez and Hazel Langley. They moved to Magnolia AR in 1940 and to Stamps AR in 1941. Her Dad worked at the Olin Sulphur Plant in McKamie AR. Georgia had two younger brothers, Don and Mike.

She graduated from Stamps High School in 1951 and from Henderson State Teachers College. Georgia married John Eby, an artist and teacher, and they had three children, Mike, Rob and Gretchen. The Ebys lived in Texas, Germany and Oklahoma before moving to Phoenix in 1968.

Georgia got a Masters degree from Arizona State, and was a Reading Specialist and award winning Teacher in the Phoenix School System, until she retired in 1992. She divorced John Eby in 1978.

Georgia married Tom Sims in 1989, and they moved to Las Vegas NV in 1994 and lived a very happy life, until they lost a two year battle with her lymphoma cancer in 1998.

Georgia was a special person, who lived life to the fullest. Her joys included her family, a few very close friends, teaching kids, art, music, reading, traveling and good food.

She detested hypocrisy and mathematics, and whenever a crisis or a problem arose, often responded with a cheery "Oh shit, Oh dear" epithet.




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