Mrs. Simpson died at 9:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in Collingsworth General Hospital. She was a resident of Thomas Nursing Center. Mrs. Simpson was one of this area's outstanding women in the Home Demonstration Club movement, and she herself was a member of that organization and its forerunner for half a century. She was still a teen-age girl when she became a member of the "Corn Club" at Jacksboro. After she and Mr. Simpson were married December 24, 1911. they lived at Edna on the Gulf Coast, where Home Demonstration Clubs were then organized. She recalled that she traveled considerable distances in a buggy to attend meetings. Mrs. Simpson became president of her club, and because of her outstanding work, she was appointed chairman for Red Cross work in Edna during World War I.
When the family moved to Collingsworth County, she became a charter member and later president of the Midway Club. Later she helped to organize the Samnorwood Home Demonstration Club. Mrs. Simpson was a leader in the special projects of the county home demonstration
clubs, and twice served as delegate to state conventions and once to the Farmers Short Course at A&M. She was a county THDA chairman, and served the clubs in other capacities of leadership. Over a long period, she was one of the 4-H Club county sponsors.
Closer to her heart, however, was her work with her church, first Midway Baptist, and after it was disbanded, First Baptist Church. She held office in many capacities in its WMU, as a charter member of that group at Midway and taught a girls Sunday School Class for many years.
Mrs. Simpson was born at Bridgeport May 12, 1877, daughter of James Haley and Nancy Jane Ray King. Mr. Simpson died June 11, 1953, and she was the last of her four sisters and three brothers. Surviving Mrs. Simpson are two daughters, Virginia and Pauline.
