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  1. Hugh D. Sims1904 - 1980
m. Aft 1943
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Name Hugh D. Sims
Alt Name[1] Hugh Sims
Gender Male
Birth[2] 2 Aug 1904 Gainesville, Hall, Georgia, USA
Alt Birth[1] 2 Aug 1904
Marriage Aft 1943 to Pearl Sarah Chronister
Occupation[2] From 1948 to 1964 chemical engineer at Bucknell University
Residence[2][1] 1980 Lewisburg, Union, Pennsylvania, USA
Death[2] 18 Jan 1980 Lewisburg, Union, Pennsylvania, USA
Alt Death[1] Jan 1980
Obituary[2] 21 Jan 1980 The Gettysburg Times
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service)
    entry for Hugh Sims, 1980, SS no. 465-18-5536, accessed 16 Dec 2011, 16 Dec 2011.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States. Gettysburg Times. (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
    "Dr. Hugh D. Sims," 21 Jan 1980, p. 2, col. 7; digital images : accessed 17 Jun 2010)., 17 Jun 2010.

    Dr. Hugh D. Sims, 75, professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Bucknell University, died Friday at his home in Lewisburg.
    He joined the Bucknell faculty in 1948 and and sever as chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1951 to 1964. He retired in 1989.
    A native of Gainesville, Ga., he was educated in schools in Pendergrass and Atlanta, Ga. He recieved a bachelor of science degree from the Georgia State of Technology in 1928, a master of science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933.
    Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pearl Chronister Sims; a daughter, Mrs. M. Dorothea Troutman of Dallastown, a stepdaughter, Mrs Jean Perrson of York; a son, Lyman Sims of Phoenix, Ariz; three stepsons, William Linton of Sausalito, Calif, William E. Craumer of Gettysburg and Robert C. Craumer of Camp Hill, five grandchildren, 10 step-grandchildren, and a step-great grandchild.
    Services were held today at 1:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church, with Rev. Gordon Kurtz, his pastor, officiating. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery, Montgomery RD.