gone

Poor little butterfly on the walk
Pick him up, Rose, with a violet stalk,
Now in a lily leaf let him be wound
His Coffin a peapod, that Johnie has found

In Mother's flower pot let him be laid
Let the Geranium over him wave,
Rest little butterfly, in your nice bed
A rose at your feet and a stone at your head

"A favored poem of Maggie R. Sims"

Family, like butterflies, come and make a seemingly
fleeting, but lasting impression in our lives, and all
too soon, they are Gone...but not forgotten.
~Cynthia Sims Cann '07

Delbert Sims
Philmore Sims
Rev. Peter Gant
Leona Gant
Johnnie Hodge
Dorothy Hodge
Ike Sims
Amy Howard
Wilma Sims Ware
Rosalee Sims
Powell
Taiyanna Zane'
Cann
Patricia Wesley
Isabel Gant

Gone...but not
Forgotten

Allen Sims
Mahalia Sims
Alfred Saulters
Pinkey Sims
Howard
Bernice Thomas
Henrietta Thomas
Terrance Evans
Wilhemena Barnes
Herman Barnes
Bennie Zelders
Elihue Sims
Thomas E. Sims
Nathaniel Hardy
Fannie Gant
Charlie Gant
Ivory Boyd
Laura Sims Boyd
Annie M. Howard
Ernestine Curl Fedd
Geneva Thomas
Lee
Rowena S.
Morrison
Sandra Maxwell
Columbus Thomas
Charles Maynard

Elic Sims
Thomas Sims
Josephine Thomas
Irene Gainer
Ruth Ellis
James Ray
Addison Miller
Inez Sims
James Barnes
Ruth Sims Maynard
Ernest E. Sims
Maggie S.
McSwaine
Robert Ware
Maggie Gant Sims
James Gant
Bryant Boyd
Sylvia Sims Young
Bishop Howard
Paul L. Sims
Helen Ray Ervin
Sandra Hardy
Rebecca Boyd
Barney Sims
Josephine Maxwell

These are the leaves that helped nourish our tree