Harry Francis Simmons (1916 - 2009)

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Died 26 Mar 2009 at age 92 in Englewood, FL

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Biography

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Note NI028Rememberances of History:

the Depression: it was hard times, he was in it.

Pearl Harbor: Harry was working for the Beverly Post Office

JFK assination: He was watching TV; he had remarried and was living in Beverly; owned his own Simmons Heat Treating business, which he started in 1952.

He remembers his childhood home as an old house in Salem, MA. The family lived on the 2nd & 3rd floors over the bake shop. He recalls that in 1921, while he was being bathed in the tub upstairs, there was an earthquake and the water was rolling around the tub. His father picked him out of the tub and carried him downstairs and outside to Essex Street in front of the shop.

Harry dropped out of school (high school or college?) and started a metalurgy factory. He holds pattents for metals that the military uses. His sister's thought he was crazy for not going to college... turns out he did quite fine.

Harry was moved to an Englewood Hospice House on or before March 20, 2009 for palliative care.

Harry died (March 26, 2009) at 6:30 after spending a peaceful night. His wife Elizabeth Jean (BJ) and daughter Andrea were with him. He had received the Sacrament for the Sick on Tuesday. May he rest in peace. (Ann Misoda)

Obituary

Harry Francis Simmons

Simmons, Harry Francis

July 22, 1916 - March 26, 2009

Harry Francis Simmons, 92, of Englewood, formerly of Beverly, Mass., died March 26, 2009.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at St. David's Episcopal Church of Englewood.

Survivors include his wife of 46 years, B.J.; daughters Andrea Mills of Danvers, Mass., and Susan Jositas of Trumbull, Conn.; a son, Ronald of Beverly; sisters Anna Panza and Ruth K. Simons, both of Marblehead, Mass.; seven grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren.

Donations may be made to a charity of choice.

list of 209 FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Englewood, FL:

Call Sign: KK4WC, Previous Call Sign: WB4CZD

Grant Date: 01/12/1988, Expiration Date: 01/12/1998, Cancelation Date: 01/13/2000

Registrant: Harry F Simmons, 579 Spruce St, Englewood, FL 33533