Graveside funeral service for George Lee Simmons will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 8, 2017 in Fairview Cemetery, Apache.

Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

George Lee Simmons, age 75, Apache, died Thursday, August 3, 2017 in Lawton.  He was born July 25, 1942 in Anadarko, Oklahoma to Lonnie L. and Viola Margaret Simmons.  George grew up in Elgin and was a 1960 graduate of Elgin High School.  He attended Okmulgee Technical Institute and received his refrigeration license.  He served in the U.S. Army from 1963 until 1969.

George began a career with Sears in Dallas, Texas as a repairman in 1966 and continued working for Sears until his retirement in 1998 in Lawton.  George was an avid drag racer and was known to many as "The Farmer".  He had attended the Cowboy Church in Apache.

He is survived by his nephew Robert "Nicky" Simmons and wife Linda, Dallas, Georgia; his niece Margaret Potter and husband Dennis, Troupsberg, New York; and great nieces and nephews, Richard, Brittney and Austin Simmons and Shayna and John Potter.

His parents and a brother, Robert Mason Simmons, preceded him in death.