HAMILTON - Services for Joyce Simmons House, 81, who died Monday, January 25th at her residence, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 27th in the Tisdale-Lann Memorial Aberdeen Chapel with Bro. Charles Caldwell and Bro. David Westmoreland officiating. Burial will be in Center Hill Cemetery.
  Mrs. House was born in Monroe County to Henry Clay and Virginia Frances Boyd Simmons. She was a lifelong resident of Hamilton and a graduate of Hamilton High School. She was a member and Sunday School teacher at Hamilton Presbyterian Church and was named Hamilton's Outstanding Citizen of 1998. Mrs. House retired in 1974 as a presser for Seminole Manufacturing Company. She worked as a Mary Kay consultant and assistant librarian. She completed a term as Monroe County Supervisor, Third District, following the death of her husband, who held the office.
  She leaves a daughter, Judy House Pugh of Hamilton; two grandchildren, Nichole Pugh and Ian Pugh and wife, Bryndi, all of Hamilton; two step grandchildren, Steve Chaffin and wife, Kim, and Rick Chaffin and wife, Lisa, all of Hamilton. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, William L. "Bill" House, a son, William Clay House; a daughter-in-law, Ritchie House; four sisters, Lillian Summerford, Irene Hood, Beatrice Simmons and Barbara Mabry; three brothers, Allen E. Simmons, Houston Malone and Basil Malone.
  Pallbearers are Danny Simmons, Jeremy West, Danny Holloway, Don Holloway, Wesley Lawrence and Adam Harmon. Honorary pallbearers are Jimmy Kirkpatrick, Fay Coleman, Van Wells, Jr., Dorlos Robinson and all nieces and nephews.
  Visitation will take place from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 26th, ata the funeral home.