Samuel Brown Magner

Son: Ralph Jerald and Dica Belle (Brooke) Magner Children

Daughter: Corenne Dica Magner, husband Herman C. Simmons

Parsons (Kansas) Sun Newspaper - February 15, 1995 - Page 4

Obituaries
ERIE - Herman Simmons, 76 of Erie died at 11:09 p.m. Tuesday, February 14, 1995, at the Labette County Medical Center, where he was admitted earlier in the day.

The service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church in Erie with the Rev. Jere Wells officiating.

Further obituary details and arrangements will be announced by the Pierce-Carson Wall Funeral Home of Erie.

The Erie (Kansas) Record Newspaper
Thursday, February 23, 1995 - Page 3

Herman Cecil Simmons
Herman C. Simmons, 76, of 203 West Wilson, Erie, died at 11:09 p.m. Tuesday, February 14, 1995 at the Labette County Medical Center in Parsons where he was admitted earlier in the day.  He had been in declining health for the past two years, however his death was unexpected.

He was born April 18, 1918 near Kimball, a son of Lee R. and Cena (Gown) Simmons.  He grew up in the Kimball area and attended Pleasant Ridge Elementary School.  In 1936, he graduated from Grant Township High School at Stark.  He was employed at the Neosho valley Cooperative Creamery, which later became the Mid-America Dairymen Association, until retiring as a supervisor in 1975.  From 1975 to 1978, he worked at the Western Auto Store in Erie.  From 1978 to 1983, he worked at the Erie Auto Parts Store with his son, Larry.

Simmons was a member of the First Christian Church in Erie.  He was also a member of the Southeast Kansas Bottle and Relic Club.  He was an avid fisherman and enjoyed gardening and woodworking.

He and Corenne D. Magner were married April 18, 1941 at Valley Falls, Kansas.  She survives of the home.

Other survivors include four sons, Larry and Kenneth, both of Erie; Gene of Augusta, and Stanley of Chanute; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; two brothers, Thomas Simmons, Galesburg and Jesse Simmons, Erie; and two sisters; Mildred L. (Claud) Walker of Perry, Georgia and Ida N. (John) Ritchards of Thousand Oaks, California.  Three brothers and a sister preceded him in death.  Burial was in East Hill Cemetery, Erie, Kansas - Neosho County.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m., Saturday, February 18 at the First Christian Church in Erie with Dr. Jere Wells officiating.  Burial was in the East Hill Cemetery with Pierce-Carson Wall Funeral Home of Erie in charge of arrangements.

Memorials are suggested to the First Christian Church of Erie.