Dannie Simpson Obituary

SIMPSON, Dannie WALTERBORO - Mr. Dannie Vaughn Simpson, 63, of 342 Firehill Road, Walterboro, died Wednesday afternoon, February 23, 2005, at the Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held three o'clock Sunday afternoon, February 27, 2005, in the Pine Grove Baptist Church No 1 with the Reverend Kenneth McCaskill officiating. Family and friends are invited to call from 2:00 until 3:00 prior to the service at the church. Mr. Simpson was born August 8, 1941, in Toledo, Ohio and was a son of Mrs. Mary Gladys Vaughn Simpson and the late Mr. Worthy "Shorty" Simpson. He was a retired employee of Ford Motor Company where he was a Machine Setter and Engineer having worked in the Rawsonville Ford Plant. He was a member of Whiteford Wesleyan Methodist Church in Michigan and had attended the Pine Grove Baptist Church No. 1 in Walterboro. He was a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose, was a member of the Eagle, and was a member of the United Auto Workers Union. He will be remembered by many for his love of building and being an avid mechanic. Surviving are: his wife of thirty-nine years, Mrs. Janet May Haley Simpson; his mother of Defiance, Ohio; two sons, Daniel N. Simpson of Westminster, Colorado, and Michael Phillips Simpson and his wife Cherie of Adrian, Michigan; two daughters, Sherry Felice and her husband Dennis of Belleville, Michigan, and Michelle Cox and her husband Michael of Fort Lee, Virginia; a brother, Anthony Simpson and his wife Velma of Dundee, Michigan; and three sisters, Deloris Custer of Reading, Michigan, Brenda Elford and her husband Michael of Defiance, Ohio, and Debbie Simpson of Boston, Massachusetts. There are four grandchildren, Brandon and Christopher Rowe, and Austin and Eric Cox that also survive. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Laura Marie Simpson. Arrangements by: THE BRICE W. HERNDON AND SONS FUNERAL HOMES, WALTERBORO CHAPEL, 1193 Bells Highway, Walterboro. 843-538-5408. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.