Graveside Funeral Rites for Mrs. Bobbie Sullivan Simmons will be held at 10:00 am on Monday, August 10, 2020, at the Bullock Cemetery in Sanford. Mrs. Sullivan Simmons, age 83, passed away from this life on Saturday, August 8, 2020, in Hattiesburg. Brother Joe Lott and Brother Wayne Woolwine will officiate.

Wade Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers will be Crawford Sullivan, Kyle Sullivan, Joseph Massey, Ryan Higdon, Tony Sullivan, and Charlie Sullivan.

Garbadene "Bobbie" Clark Sullivan Simmons was born on September 26, 1936, in Covington County to Johnnie Clark and Cordelia Graham Clark. Mrs. Sullivan Simmons earned her Accounting Degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. She was the longtime accountant for Sullivan Motors. Mrs. Sullivan Simmons was a member of the Sanford Missionary Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her mother; husbands, Crawford Sullivan and James Simmons; an infant daughter; and 1 sister, Debbie Fortenberry.

Survivors include her 2 children, Pamela S. Eakes and her husband Billy and Greg Sullivan and his wife Nancy, all of Seminary; 4 grandchildren, Amy Massey, Anna Higdon, Crawford Sullivan, and Kyle Sullivan; 7 great-grandchildren, Owen and Emma Massey, Will Higdon, Tucker, Ruby, Keller, and Knox Sullivan: 2 sister, Ouida Stephens and her husband Troy and Lynda Holbrook and her husband Jackie, all of Sumrall; 1 brother-in-law, Larry Fortenberry of Sumrall; 4 step-children, Terry Simmons and his wife Rita of Hattiesburg, Petrina Simmons and her husband Slade of Cullman, AL, Brinda Simmons of Hattiesburg, and Rondal Simmons of Sevierville, TN; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.