Fredrick Eugene SIMPSON (VETERAN KOR)
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SIMPSON, Charles EdgarSIMPSON, Samuel W.SIMPSON, Margaret P.SIMPSON, Ernest LoganSIMPSON, CoraSIMPSON, George SanfordSIMPSON, Maida FSIMPSON, Willie HSIMPSON, Charles HermanSIMPSON, Nannie PSIMPSON, William LSIMPSON, Nancy ESIMPSON, Mildred Allene Dickens Additional SIMPSON Surnames in FAULKNER County
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Submitted: 7/19/16 • Approved: 7/24/16 • Last Updated: 7/27/16 • R1148952-G0-S3
US Navy
Korea
June 9, 1933 - January 23, 2015
In sports and life you sometimes hear of "game changers". To me they are the catalyst of their respective Team or Company who by some act or acts make the difference in a game or situation. Today my Father left this earth. He was a "definition changer" for me. Unconditional love, kindness, support, strength, and wisdom have all come to mean more through his life example. I am only at my best when his influence is present. May you all be so lucky to know this love.
-Wesley Simpson, son
age: 81 years 7 months 14 days
The Lord called Fred home on Jan. 23, 2015 at Heritage Living Center in Conway into a heaven free of pain and Alzheimer's. Mr. Simpson was born June 6, 1933 in Vilonia to the late Fredrick Simpson and Mary Sue Brown Simpson.
The family moved to Conway, where Mr. Simpson graduated from Conway High School in 1951. After graduation, he joined the US Navy and was trained in the use of Morse code. After completing his training he became a Radioman Second Class serving on the rocket launcher St. Joseph's River during the Korean War.
After being honorably discharged from the Navy in 1955, he returned to Conway and graduated from the University of Arkansas (Arkansas State Teachers College) in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He taught in Little Rock for one year and then went to work for Dave Ward at the Ward School Bus Co. as a draftsman. After 38 years of service he retired as a specifications engineer. He traveled all over the U.S. and some foreign countries before retiring in August 1998.
He was a longtime member of Antioch Baptist Church in Conway.
In his earlier years he enjoyed golfing, playing dominoes, watching his son play football and baseball and watching his daughter play soccer and participate in the school band. He also enjoyed being with his veteran friends at the V.F.W. Post 2259. He was a kind and good man who was very witty and sweet.
Mr. Simpson was also preceded in death by one sister, Frances Jeanette Simpson Pearson and his granddaughter, Jamie Lee Sullivant (daughter of Lainie and Jimmy Sullivant).
He is survived by his wife of over 50 years, whom he married Nov. 25, 1964, Eleanor Connie Burr Simpson; children, Wesley Burr Simpson (Mary) of Greenbrier and Lainie Erin Simpson of North Little Rock; sister, Alice Ann Simpson Warren (Delbert), of Conway; grandchildren, Weston Simpson, Alexandra (Allie) Simpson, Jacob Sloan, Dylan Leet, Fredrick Hayden Simpson and Marcus Simpson; sister-in-law Debbie Burr Floyd (V.A.D.M Kenny) of Coronado, Calif.; brothers-in-law: Gordon Burr (Betty) of Hot Springs, Ark., Donald Burr (Brenda) of Denton, Texas and Gary Burr (Carol) of Conway.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 at Roller-McNutt Funeral Home in Conway, with burial to follow at Oak Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Monday evening at the funeral home. Robbie Wills, Jimmy Toal, Mike Yoder, Weston Simpson, Jacob Sloan and Dylan Leet will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Kurt Stevens and the day shift at V.F.W. Post 2259.
Parents:
George Fred Simpson (1895 - 1971)
Mary Sue Brown Hubbard (1910 - 1999)
Sibling:
Jeanette Simpson Pearson (1931 - 1989)
Fredrick Eugene Simpson (1933 - 2015)
Contributed on 7/19/16 by hawkinsdonna
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