Johnny Lee “Sonny” aRACE — Dessie Legusta Simmons, 64, of 140 E.at 5000 S.. died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1988, a lo- Rev. Nolan Theodore JonesdayHil,, e 87. of 2924 Lincoln, died Sun g March 9, 1986, in a local nursin home of causes incident 10 age. in He was born Aug. 18, 1898, eae Rouge,@ Simmons Jan. 5, was She reared and edu- iat cated La., a son of: d an = a. ace 9 2 He earned degrees at Gilbert Baldwin, La., 1n 1919. 0 : 2s woe oom re He attendedPrairie View College, was conve Francis Toler, St. Louis, O. Services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. 30th at the Embry A.M.E. Church, 264 offi- St., with the Rev. Leander Coates | ciating. Sons & ist Lindqu at call may s Friend Colonial Chapel in Ogden, 3408 Washington Bivd., Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Friday at the church from noon to 12:45 p.m. Memorial Gar- — interment, Lindquist's Jey: dens of the Wasatch. ‘ 1 ag . ¥ i 7 # Grant to Port- # land. He gradu- | He served in the Armed Forces. He was a member of the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church. He and his wife, Sherrell, were mar- ried Sept. 14, 1985, in Portland. Surviving are his widow, one son, Christopher, and one daughter, Chala, | all of Portland. Also surviving are his mother of Portland, six sisters, Peggy Montgomery, Ruby Dizer, Charlotte Dizer, Mar- Embry ~ Chapel A.M.E. Church. While a member in Los Angeles she was in the choir, was recording secretary, and a Sunday school teacher. In Ogden she had been a Sunday school teacher and president of the Flemming Edmond Missionary Society, Unit No. 1. She served as PTA secretary at T.H. Bell Junior High from 1971 to 1972. She had been a volunteer for the American Heart Association and was a member of the Friendly Eight Club. Surviving are her husband of Washington Terrace and two daughters, | Mrs. Reginald (Beverly A.) Hammons, Ogden; Carolyn E. Simmons, Salt Lake City; two grandchildren. Also surviving are one brother and three sisters, Emmons Shumate Jr., San Diego, Calif.; Lola Mae Diggs, St. Louis, Mo.; Fleeta Mae Green, Para- schools, ~~ High School. e She of the & @ ated from Washington | a member He attended Ogden’ City moving She attended business school in Los | . Angeles, Calif. sa and Central Junior High & School, prior to ee a years. government employe longed to the Free Order of Masons, Mt. Ogden Lodge No. 20.. Academy, Rue etm St. oe i ss., _ four years; St. Louis, Mo., for six. years; Los Angeles, Calif., for seven years; and in the Ogden area for 29 He married Mae Lillie Mouton April $4, 1927, 49 Abeviille, La. tired federal MeriM Feb. 15, 1948, in Og- Chinetta Dizer. | High Harrison School. She lived in De : and § graduating from <7, 1ankna Jones. in , Ore. — Johnny Lee 40, of Portland, died 5, 1988, in Portland of den, Utah, a son of Johnnie L. 1946, in St. Louis, Mo. Nolan Theo-} dore Il, and] Sarah Smith) PORTLAND, “Sonny” Dizer, Thursday, May a heart attack. He was born ee Baton cal nursing center of heart failure. She was born March 29, 1923, in ; Codver, Ala., a daughter of Em-_ § mons Sr., and g Leona; Ruby Sharp Shumate. #3 She married @ Lee & ‘Robert © Mita. Dizer vina Dizer, Rita Dizer, Berna Joyce Dizer, all of Portland; three brothers, Russell Dizer, Columbus, Md.; Henry Dizer, Portland, Ore.; Michael Dizer, Ogden. He was preceded in death by his father, one brother, one sister, one 3 grandmother. Services were held Wednesday, May 11, in Portland. Interment was in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland. Funeral directors, Vann & Vann Fu- ‘neral directors, in Portland. -