Graveside services for Magaline Towry Simmons, age 94, of Taft, TN will be held at 1:30 pm on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at Kirkland Cemetery with Bro. Jimmy Paul Williams officiating. Visitation with her family will be from 11 am until 1 pm on Thursday at Higgins.
Magaline was born February 23, 1930, in Lincoln County, TN to the late Ferrell and Ethel Henderson Towry. She worked for 40 years as a seamstress at Serbin Manufacturing and attended Prospect Baptist Church. Magaline loved tending to her home and farm where she raised bottle calves, enjoyed working in her garden and canning, and she adored her dogs. She passed away June 4, 2024, at Elk River Health and Rehab in Fayetteville.
Survivors include her nieces and nephews, Linda and Jerry Brown, Helen Towry, Rex and Elisa Towry, Renee and Keith Blackburn, Stanley Brown, Nancy Gray, Anthony Simmons, Johnny Simmons and Donna May, and Tonya and David Gordon; great-nieces and nephews, Jeremy and Brandi Brown, Carrissa and Christopher Harris, Joshua and Caitlin Blackburn, Lindsay Blackburn, Tyler and Faith Simmons, Travis and Emily Simmons, Maylee Simmons, Brittany Gordon, Emma Gordon, and Mollie Gordon; great-great nieces and nephews, Ellis Brown, Cora Brown, Ensleigh Harris, J.D. Fritz and Levi Fritz; sister-in-law, Annette Cooper; good friends and caregivers, Terry O’Neal, Don Bankston, Margaret Patterson, and Linda Cagle. In addition to her parents, Magaline was preceded in death by her husband, Colyar George Simmons; and brother, Thomas Towry and wife Sue.
Higgins Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Magaline Towry Simmons.
