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.