Maxwell S Simpson
Maxwell S Simpson
December 25, 1929 ~ March 31, 2005
Maxwell S Simpson, 75, Glasgow, died Thursday, March 31, 2005, at the T. J. Samson Community Hospital. A native of Cumberland County, he was a son of the late D. B. and Dora Garner Simpson.
Mr. Simpson was a graduate of Florida Southern University, where he received both a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degree and served as President of the local chapter of Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society. He was a bacteriologist at the Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab of the Florida Department of Agriculture. He was also owner of Scottie Drive-In in Glasgow; a member of the Florida Academy of Science and an active member and deacon of the Glasgow Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Adolfina Vasseur Simpson; two daughters, Lydia Simmons Crenshaw of Nashville, and Sylvia S. Gill and her husband, Tyler, of Allensville, KY; two grandchildren, Kurt A. Simmons of Goodlettsville, TN, and Emilie T. Gill of Allensville; one great-granddaughter, Kurstin Abbigayle Simmons; one brother, Gene Simpson of Glasgow; two sisters, Earleen Scott and her husband, Eddie C., and Norma McKinney and her husband, Paul, of Glasgow; three sisters-in-law, Lou Ann Simpson, Ida Belle Simpson and Mary Rose Simpson; several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four brothers, Willard, Ernest, Robert and Maurice Simpson.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 2, 2005, at the Glasgow Baptist Church with burial in the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Hatcher & Saddler Funeral Home and after 12 noon Saturday at the church.
Alternate expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the American Diabetes Association or the Glasgow Baptist Church Scholarship Fund.
