{"id":56099,"date":"2026-04-25T19:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=56099"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:57:39","slug":"wilma-jean-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/wilma-jean-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilma Jean Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilma Jean Simmons, age 89 of Ekron, passed away on Saturday, April 25, 2026, at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She was born on June 12, 1936, in West Point, to the late Ernest and Virgie Greer Wardrip. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Jack Simmons; and her sister, Louise Wardrip of West Point.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at Big Spring Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Buck Grove Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held at Hager Funeral Home in Brandenburg from 6 until 8 p.m. on Tuesday, and at the church from Noon until the time of service on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Cooperative Program of the Southern Baptist Convention online at sbc.net or through any of the Southern Baptist member churches. <\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagerfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilma Jean Simmons, age 89 of Ekron, passed away on Saturday, April 25, 2026, at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituaries","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Funeral-Rose.jpg?fit=425%2C282&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-eAP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-05-06 19:51:45","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56100,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56099\/revisions\/56100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}