This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Simm, Hall, Evison Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mNC.2ACE/2438 Message Board Post: >From the Winnipeg Free Press, Thursday, May 5, 1977, page 59, under Deaths and Funera.s "On May 4, 1977 at the Grace Hospital, John Simm, aged 88 years, late of Hetherington Avenue and Central Park Lodge, Edmonton Street, husband of the late Beatrice Simm, who predeceased him in 1973. Mr. Simm was born at Jarrow - on - Tyne, England, coming to Canada in 1911, and to Winnipeg in 1912. He served overseas during the First World War with the 42nd. Cameron Highlanders, returning to Canada in 1918. He was employed with the Departemnt fo Veterans" Affairs for twenty - seven years, retiring in 1949. Mr. Simm was a member of of St. John's Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M. and a Past Patron of Patricia Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Surviving are a son, Alan Robson Simm of Rossland, B. C.: eight grandchildren; a brother, Tom of South Africa, and a sister, Mrs. Betty Hall in England. Funeral service will be held in the Thomson Funeral Chapels, Broadway at Furby, Friday, May 6 at 11:00 a.m.. The Rev. G. E. Evison will officiate. The service will terimate at the chapels with cremation to follow. Flowres greatfully declined. Courtesy parking west of the funeral chaples." For informtion only. The poster is not related to nor is researching any of the above.