Willie Mae "GoodMama" Sims
November 29, 1908 — July 25, 2009
Willie Mae "GoodMama" Sims
Willie Mae "GoodMama" Adams (Vaught) Sims, 100, of Graham, passed away Saturday, July 25, 2009 in Graham. Graveside services will be held Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in Newcastle Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Morrison Funeral Home.
Willie Mae was born the eldest of six children to William Francis Adams and Lula Jane (Woods) on November 29, 1908 in Pottsboro, Grayson County, Texas. On June 19, 1926 she married Jesse James Vaught in Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas. They had two children - Charles Otho and Mary Frances (Layfield). Jessie died in 1937 and she married William Sebe "Daddy Bill" Sims on April 16, 1949.
Willie Mae was best known for owning and running the café at the sales barn for a number of years. Each Sunday she would do all her baking by preparing as many as a dozen pies for the cowboys who came for the sale on Monday. Her pies and chicken fried steak were known to be the best around.
Last November, she celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by friends and family including grandchildren, great grandchildren, and a great great grandson. Family was her greatest blessing and being able to spend time with them. She has lived in Graham for sixty years. She loved fishing and hunting and was still fishing up to her 95th birthday.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings, Myrtle Reed in 1974, Donnie Crabtree in 1978, Ethel Pinkston Haas in 1987, Homer "Jack" Adams in 1990, Opal "Judy" Bryan in 1993; her husbands Jesse Vaught in 1937 and Bill Sims in 1976; her daughter Mary "Sis" Layfield in 2006; grandson Charles Richard "Ricky" Layfield in 2004; daughter-in-laws Lorene Vaught in 1987 and Marjorie Vaught in 2009.
She is survived by her son Charles Otho Vaught of Eliasville, Texas; grandsons, James Otho Vaught and Charles David Vaught of Washington; granddaughters, Cynthia Askew of Graham, Sharon Seaton of Alaska, Rhonda Zehner of Washington, Sara Wheeler of Oklahoma, Jenni Dougan of Gainesville; eleven great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Willie Mae was born the eldest of six children to William Francis Adams and Lula Jane (Woods) on November 29, 1908 in Pottsboro, Grayson County, Texas. On June 19, 1926 she married Jesse James Vaught in Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas. They had two children - Charles Otho and Mary Frances (Layfield). Jessie died in 1937 and she married William Sebe "Daddy Bill" Sims on April 16, 1949.
Willie Mae was best known for owning and running the café at the sales barn for a number of years. Each Sunday she would do all her baking by preparing as many as a dozen pies for the cowboys who came for the sale on Monday. Her pies and chicken fried steak were known to be the best around.
Last November, she celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by friends and family including grandchildren, great grandchildren, and a great great grandson. Family was her greatest blessing and being able to spend time with them. She has lived in Graham for sixty years. She loved fishing and hunting and was still fishing up to her 95th birthday.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings, Myrtle Reed in 1974, Donnie Crabtree in 1978, Ethel Pinkston Haas in 1987, Homer "Jack" Adams in 1990, Opal "Judy" Bryan in 1993; her husbands Jesse Vaught in 1937 and Bill Sims in 1976; her daughter Mary "Sis" Layfield in 2006; grandson Charles Richard "Ricky" Layfield in 2004; daughter-in-laws Lorene Vaught in 1987 and Marjorie Vaught in 2009.
She is survived by her son Charles Otho Vaught of Eliasville, Texas; grandsons, James Otho Vaught and Charles David Vaught of Washington; granddaughters, Cynthia Askew of Graham, Sharon Seaton of Alaska, Rhonda Zehner of Washington, Sara Wheeler of Oklahoma, Jenni Dougan of Gainesville; eleven great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
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