Doris Elizabeth (Lightsey) Simpson (1917 - 1999)

Born 18 Aug 1917 in Madison, Louisiana, USA

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Died 22 Sep 1999 at age 82 in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

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Biography

Doris was born in 1917. She was the daughter of John Lightsey and Von Stewart. In 1930, the family was living in Louisiana.^[1] By 1940, her mother had died, and only she and her sister Katherine were living with their widowed father in Madison Parish, Louisiana.^[2]

She married Grady L Simpson on 24 Nov 1943. They both were mentioned in the death record of their 19 year old son, Donald Lavelle Simpson, on 18 Jun 1966 in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama.^[3]

She passed away in 1999 in Alabama. ^[4] Burial was in the Montgomery Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMYJ-C4G : 8 December 2015), Doris Lightsey in entry for John L Lightsey, 1930.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYPH-723 : 13 March 2018), Doris E Lightsey in household of John H Lightsey, Police Jury Ward 8, Madison, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 33-17, sheet 4A, line 31, family 58, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1412.
3. ↑ "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JXZL-HBJ : 15 February 2018), Grady L. Simpson in entry for Donald Lavelle Simpson, 18 Jun 1966; citing reference 15504, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,909,091.
4. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V3Z6-X38 : 20 May 2014), Doris E Simpson, 22 Sep 1999; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
5. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 January 2019), memorial page for Doris Simpson (18 Aug 1917–22 Sep 1999), Find A Grave: Memorial #136982337, citing Montgomery Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Mary Enzor Smith (contributor 46862968) .

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