Hollis Thomas Simmons, 74

McMinnville resident and Coffee County native Hollis Thomas Simmons, 74, died Dec. 23 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.

A retired nurseryman and a member of Pleasant Hill New Life Baptist Church, he was the son of Charlie Webster and Blanchel Lawery Simmons; and was preceded in death by daughter, Rachel Sowell and brother, Bob Simmons.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Simmons; daughters, Linda McCormick of McMinnville and Cathy Cantrell of Painesville, Ohio; son Hollis Thomas Simmons Jr. of Arizona; adopted son, Ernest Lee Simmons of McMinnville; stepsons, Thomas Campbell of McMinnville and David Wayne Campbell of Spencer; stepdaughter, Patrick Fults of McMinnville; 18 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Services were held Monday at Love-Cantrell Cope Funeral Home Chapel with burial following at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Dec. 29, 2004