Simmons, Maurice Allen 


Funeral services for Maurice Allen Simmons, 81, of Longview, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday, 
February 7, 2006, at Little Flock Baptist Church with the Rev. Leon Veazy officiating. 
Burial will be in Rosewood Park. Services are under the direction of Welch Funeral Home. 
Mr. Simmons died Saturday at a Tyler hospital. He was born February 27, 1924, in Fort 
Wayne, Indiana, to James Levi and Pearl Edith Bair Simmons. Mr. Simmons was a resident 
of Longview since 1965, coming from Columbia City, Indiana, to teach at LeTourneau. He 
graduated and taught at Indiana Tech, had a masters degree from Purdue and attended 
Vanderbilt University. He was an electrical engineer for LeTourneau Inc., working until 
August 2005. Mr. Simmons served in the U.S. Army in World War II and was a member of 
Little Flock Baptist Church. Mr. Simmons is survived by his wife, Bobbie Simmons of 
Longview; daughters, Becky Fisher of Longview, and Suzie Sites of Las Vegas, Nevada; 
sons, Robin Simmons of Las Vegas, Nevada, James Gibson Jr. of Longview, and Richard 
Gibson of Illinois; sister, Hazel Leininger of Colorado; grandchildren, Angela McKinney 
of Longview, Peter Sites of California, Melissa Simmons of Houston, Janna Simmons of 
Kilgore, Adrienne Deason and James Gibson III of Longview; and great-grandchildren, 
Kaila and Jessi McKinney, Cade and Sabra Deason, and Parker and Preston Simmons. The 
family will receive friends at 6 p.m. today, February 6, 2006, at the funeral home. 
Memorials may be made to the Little Flock Baptist Church Building Fund, 14206 FM 968, 
Longview, TX 75602

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 2/6/2006.