Tom and Susan Sims
9009 Litchfield Avenue
Las Vegas NV 89134
Telephone: 702-354-6441
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Tommy Sims
1951
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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 ( Andy Bloch Project) , which I did at the 1996 - 1998 World Series of Poker. My internet reports are archived on the ConJelCo World Series of Poker site. 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. |
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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Tom E. 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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9009 Litchfield Avenue
2000
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9009 Litchfield Avenue
2000
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Litchfield Avenue
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
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T.R., Roma, Bill and Tom E. Sims
1947
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Tommy Sims on Lake June
1941
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Barbara Powell's Birthday Party: Guy Shannon - Tommy Sims - Bonnie Tatum
Eloise Mouser - Dorothy Baker - Ann Williams - Barbara Powell - X - X - X - Gwen Nutt
c1940
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William D. "Bill" Sims
1938 - 2002
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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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