Marguerite Simmons' Obituary
Marguerite Virginia Means Simmons who died July 10, 2012 at the age of 94 was a scholar, a performer, and a devoted wife and mother. She was the second of seven children born to Charles Burt and Miriam Mack Means in Yokum, Texas on December 27, 1917. Marguerite was top of her class at Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, winning numerous awards for her scholastic abilities. She graduated a year early so she and her sisters could go to work to help support the rest of the family and send their three brothers to college. They formed an act and in 1937 The Bennett Sisters joined Clyde McCoy and his Sugar Blues Orchestra becoming the only singing and dancing sister team to grace bandstands all across the country, performing to Clyde’s big band sounds. On December 1, 1951 Marguerite married Bill Simmons and for the next 60 years she devoted her life to taking care of her husband and her only daughter, Bonnie. Marguerite is survived by her husband, her daughter, her sister Maxine, her sister Charlie, her brother Frank and many nieces and nephews. My mother is deeply loved and we will miss her always. Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery, 5668 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38119, (901)767-8930, “Behind the Stone Wall”.
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