TITLE: Ida Mae Simmons

SOURCE: The Beaufort Gazette, May 17, 2001

SUBMITTED: The Beaufort Gazett

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, May 2001

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Ida Mae Simmons 

Ida Mae "Doty" Simmons, 85, of Beaufort, died Friday, May 11, 2001, at Bayview Nursing Center. 
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Union Baptist Church with burial in Old Fort Cemetery. 
A wake will be from 7 to 8 this evening at Helen Galloway Memorial Chapel. Ms. Simmons was born 
June 30, 1915, in Vienna, Ga. She was educated in Chatham County schools and employed for many 
years at Blue Channel Seafood Corp. She lived in Port Royal for more than 50 years and was a 
member of Union Baptist Church. Her husband, Joe Louis Simmons, preceded her in death in 1983. 
Survivors include two daughters, Macina Wise and Margie Heyward, both of Beaufort; two sons, 
Norman Gordon of Marathon, Fla. and Richard Nichols of Beaufort; eight grandchildren and 10 
great-grandchildren. 

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