Published: September 19, 2008 11:22 am         

Rosa Lee Bishop Sims

Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Lee Bishop Sims, 91, will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Parkway Cemetery. Visitation is Saturday, 10-11 a.m.

Mrs. Sims died Sept. 18, 2008 at the Tippah County Hospital in Ripley following an extended illness. She was born Dec. 21, 1915 to the late James Ellison Bishop and Cordie McHann Bishop in Drew, Sunflower County. Married in 1937, she was the widow of Horace Allen Sims of Kosciusko. She was an active member of Kosciusko First Baptist Church.

She is survived by one daughter, Sarah S. Washburn of Blue Mountain; two granddaughters, Susan W. Taylor of Madison and Laurel W. Baldwin of Alvaton, Ky.; four great-grandchildren, Will Taylor and Katie Taylor of Madison, Melissa Baldwin of Nashville and Adam Baldwin of Bowling Green, Ky.; three special nieces, Patricia Bishop Lacey of Kosciusko, Doris Stewart Summers of Jackson, and Ava Sims Day of Brandon.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Horace A. Sims; four sisters, Mildred Bishop, Martha B. Stewart, Edna B. Bonnett, Mamie B. Booker; one brother, Jesse Bishop; and a host of other fine relatives.

Pallbearers will be Robert Allen Knight, James Sims, Bill Day, Greg Taylor, Adam Baldwin and Will Taylor.