This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Akers, Parker, Simmons, Smith, Slaton Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iQ.2ADEB/1245 Message Board Post: Vera Melba Akers Parker Simmons, 84, of Anderson, AL., formerly of Haleyville, AL., died Sunday, April 2, 2006. Funeral services were held Wednesday, April 5, 2006, in Haleyville. Burial followed in Winston Memorial Cemetery. A retired practical nurse, Simmons was a member of Whitehead Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Hewett Simmons; her daughter, Shirley Ann Parker Slaton, and her parents, Thomas Lindsey Akers and Annie Elizabeth Smith Akers. She is survived by a son, three brothers, two sisters, four grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.