- Sherrill Sims (1952-1971), the youngest of six children and the only son of Turner & Velma Cate Sims, was killed in an automobile accident in 1971 along with two other friends. He was seventeen. -- Sevier County and Its Heritage; pg 343.
Sims, Sherrill, 17, DOA Sevier County Hospital; killed in auto near Kodak School. Friends, Dennis Smith and Jerry Cooper also died in accident. Survived by parents of Kodak, TN; 5 sisters, Mrs. Colbert (Evelyn) Strange, Mrs. J. D. (Carolyn) Grandstaff, Mrs. Earl (Marie) Stiles, Mrs. Harold (Wanda) Ogle, Mrs. Jim (Linda) Davis all of Kodak; 4 nephews, Rodney & Mark Strange, David Grandstaff, Stanley Stiles; grandmother, Mrs. Hattie Cate, Mrs. Lennie Sims. He was a member of French Broad Valley Baptist Church. (The Official Atchley Funeral Home Records, Sevierville, Tennessee; Published by the Smoky Mountain Historical Society)
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1953 - 1971 (17 years)
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