John Will SIMONTON, Jr.

1918 - 2008  (89 years)

• Name	John Will SIMONTON  [1]
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	15 Nov 1918  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 May 2008  [1]
  Buried	Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby, TN, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I3082	Boyd
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	John William “J Will” SIMONTON,   b. 31 Dec 1889, , Tipton, TN, USA ,   d. 23 Sep 1958, Memphis, Shelby, TN, USA  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Lottye Elizabeth HUTCHISON,   b. 10 Jan 1890, , , TN, USA ,   d. 27 Dec 1943, Memphis, Shelby, TN, USA  (Age 53 years)
  Married	17 Dec 1914	, Shelby, TN, USA   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F1214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Virginia Allene FORBIS,   b. 9 Jun 1921,   d. 11 Nov 2007  (Age 86 years)
  Married	22 Jun 1944	, Shelby, TN, USA   [2, 4]
  	findagrave.com has 23 June.
  Children	1. John Will SIMONTON, III   2. Joseph Forbis SIMONTON,   b. 1 Apr 1949,   d. 15 Nov 1973  (Age 24 years)
  Documents		John Will SIMONTON Marriage
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2011
  Family ID	F2296	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 22 Jun 1944 - , Shelby, TN, USA Buried - - Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby, TN, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  JOHN WILL SIMONTON, JR., a descendant of the earliest settlers of south Tipton County, was born November 15, 1918 to J. Will and Lottye Hutchinson Simonton. He was predeceased by three sisters. Following graduation from Bolton High School where he was captain of the football team, he entered Erskine College in South Carolina. At Erskine he served as president of the junior class, vice-president of the student council and co-captain of the football team. Prior to graduation he was selected for membership in The Euphemian Literary Society. Mr. Simonton was united in marriage on June 23, 1944 with Virginia Allene Forbis. To their union were born two sons, John W. Simonton III of Denver, Colorado and the late Joseph Forbis Simonton. During his career he worked for a bank in South Carolina and the old First National Bank of Memphis. He also managed the cheese factory and feed store in Collierville before becoming Manager for 12 years of the Memphis Dairy Exchange. When he entered the field of education he began to teach at Graves School. Following graduation with a master's degree from Memphis State University he was selected for membership in Kappa Delta Pi and Delta Kappa, teachers' honor societies. He also began 20 years at that time of school administration as principal of Cromwell School, Sherwood Jr. High and Central High. He retired as principal of Wooddale High School. He was a member of the Whitehaven Kiwanis Club the East Memphis Optimist Club and the Shelby Chapter of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution which he served as president. While a member of East Side Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Mr. Simonton served as a deacon, an elder, clerk of the session and Sunday school teacher. Later he served as an elder and Sunday school teacher at Cordova Presbyterian Church. More recently he united with Buntyn Presbyterian Church where he was an active member of the Men's Bible Study Group. During retirement he has enjoyed travel, golf, fishing, reading and genealogy. In addition he has enjoyed his grandchildren, Jennifer Simonton Kello and John Will Simonton IV. In addition to his son and grandchildren, four great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter survive him. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday, June 2 at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel, with visitation beginning at 10 a.m. Interment will follow in the family lot in Memphis Memorial Park Cemetery. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel901-725-0100 www.memphisfuneralhome.net (Published in The Commercial Appeal on 5/30/2008) [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Find a Grave, photo. [S10] Find a Grave. [S157] Early Families of the Memphis Area, (Descendants of Early Settlers of Shelby and Adjoining Counties, Panacea Press, Nashville, TN, 2008), ISBN 978-0-9791309-7-7. [S396] Shelby County Marriages 1820 - 2014, (Shelby County Register of Deeds).