In Loving Memory Claude B. "Poppa" Sims 9/21/1926 - 6/27/2010 FAMILY HERITAGE FUNERAL HOME LOCATION Claude B. “Poppa” Sims age 83 of Gallatin passed away Sunday June 27, 2010. Funeral service will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday June 30th from Family Heritage Funeral Home chapel with Bishop Michael Clark & Rev. Van Banks officiating. Interment will be in Middle Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday June 29th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Mr. Sims was born September 21, 1926 in Butler County, Alabama son of the late Lewis M. and Daleen Penton Sims. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by brothers Bill Sims, Thomas Sims, Cleve Sims and Clyde Sims, sisters Elvira Carmody, Inez Hinkley , Doretha Sims and Edna Cox. Mr. Sims was a retired minister and U. S. Navy World War II Veteran serving in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres and the invasion of the Phillipines. He is survived by wife Betty Louise Sims of Gallatin, four sons Lawrence Sims of Gallatin, William Shatswell of Gallatin, Thomas Shatswell and wife Kelly of Bethpage, and Joseph Sims and wife Sandra of Tacoma, WA, four daughters Rebecca Davenport and husband Winston of Aberdeen WA, Brenda Johnston and husband John of Gallatin, Deborah Horowitz and husband Michael of Priest River, Idaho, and Vicki Knutson of Gallatin, one sister Hazel Scott of McKenzie, AL, 18 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Adopted by love, Barbara Ann Johnson, Kelly Barrow and Dr. Leroy and Eva Barden. On line condolences may be submitted at www.familyheritagefh.com Family Heritage Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Online Condolences From: Julia Craft   Hendersonville Relationship:  Friend of Vicki Knutson Sorry for your loss. Keep you and yours in my prayers. Sent:  6/29/2010 From: Rebekah Davenport   Hoquiam Relationship:  Daughter In Loving Memory Of my Poppa , I praise the Lord for giving you to me Poppa, for raising me in the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ , I have so many wonderful memories as a child, And I Love you so very much and miss you. I would like to share my father, a man of God, who would preach the gospel, with tears in his eye, For the salvation of others, And never stop to thank of him self but others, not just his family. He loved God, His Family And most of all preaching the true Gospel of Jesus to Others, He was a soldier of the cross, and he was a man who looked where his help come from, Jesus Christ. And to my family, I love you all, And for all the love and care that you gave poppa till The end of his life here on earth, And he is with Jesus in all his glory in Revelation 20:4: ( 4: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he is now bowing down and worshiping God in ( Revelation 1:13: ( 13: And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14: His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15: And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16: And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. Poppa I will meet you there Your loving daughter Rebekah Sent:  6/29/2010 From: SARAH MCCOY   NASHVILLE Relationship:  FRIEND @ WORK TO VICKI AND FAMILY, WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE BEING PRAYED FOR AND MY THOTS ARE WITH YOU DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME... YOU HAVE TOLD ME WHAT A WONDERFUL MAN HE WAS AND HE LEAVES BEHIND A BEAUTIFUL LEGACY... GOD BLESS AND MAY HE GRANT YOU PEACE....LOVE YOU !! SARAH Sent:  6/29/2010 Send an Online Condolence   View Printer-Friendly Page