Palestine High School Alumni Association

10 / 10 / 1939  –  10 / 11 / 1963

Raymond Burton Sims, Jr., age 24, of 614 W. Reagan St., Palestine, Texas died Oct. 11, 1963 of injuries received in an automobile accident.

He was born Oct 10, 1939 in Henderson County, Texas, the son of Raymond Burton “R.B.” and Edna Butler Sims.

Mr. Sims had served in the military from 1959 to 1962. He was an employee of Kelly-Springfield Tire Company in Tyler.
Source: Texas Death Certificate; informant, R.B. Sims (father).