Mrs. Anulda Carter Sims

MRS. ANULDA SIMS, NEE ANULDA CARTER PASSES AT 98 Mrs. Anulda Carrie Sims, nee Anulda Carrie Carter departed this life on Saturday afternoon, August 22nd, 2015. She was the eldest and the last surviving child of seven children born to educator and farm agent; Dr. Oliver and Mrs. Carrie Carter (nee Carrie Patillo) on May 17, 1917 in Parmele, North Carolina. She attended Bennett College where for three years she majored in education. During the course of WW2 Mrs. Sims travelled to Plainfield, New Jersey to work in a defense plant during a summer recess. There she met a Coast Guard sailor, Gainus S. Sims whom she married in June 1944. After the war she settled in Plainfield, New Jersey. While residing there for several years she worked in different manufacturing industries before becoming employed with the Burroughs Corporation, where, after 20 years of employment, she retired as a technician in 1983. She remained in Plainfield for the next six years before moving to Bethel, North Carolina, a town just three miles west of the Parmele hometown where she was born and raised 98 years before. In life she was an avid reader who for most of her years surrounded herself with books, magazines and newspapers. Cross word puzzles, cryptograms and other word games kept her mind busy and active well into her 90’s. She loved nature, enjoyed gardening and really enjoyed tinkering with and fixing things. However, she loved no activity more than sewing and while she could, one would often find her making clothing and other items like shirts, suits, dresses slip covers and other complex sewing tasks almost always without the benefit of a pattern. Throughout her life, Mrs. Sims, was a devout Christian keenly interested in the teachings of the bible which for her provided a constant source of direction, quiet comfort and strength. There were few who knew her well that did not also know how strong willed (some would say determined others might say stubborn) she could be. She sought always to instill by example the value of scripture in both her children and those around her. When able, her care, concern and willingness to be an aid and comfort to others in and outside of her family knew no boundaries. The many touched by her love and care while she was with us will be always warmly and fondly remembered to those friends and relatives whose lives she touched with her spirit of joy, grace, humility, faith and giving. Anulda was predeceased by her sisters Rupert (nee Carter) Jenkins and Grace (nee Carter) Willet of Parmele, N.C.; Serena (nee Carter) Jefferson of Houston, Texas and brothers Edward Carter of Los Angeles, Calif., Oliver Carter of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Dawes Carter of Littleton, N.C. She leaves behind to cherish her memory all five of her children and their families; they are: Gaius 0. Sims, Sr. of Greenville, N.C. Howard H. & Shirley Sims of South Plainfield, N.J. Ritchie and Wendy A. Smith (nee Sims) of Greensboro, N.C. Curtis L. & Lara Sims of Lebanon, N.J. and Kelvin L. Sims of Phillipsburg, N.J., nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. She is survived by sisters-in-law Lorene F. Carter of Littleton, N.C. and Francis Carter of Philadelphia, Pa. and also by her former husband, Gainus Sims (98). Additionally she is survived by a host of nephews, nieces, friends and by those very special daughters and friends of faith who will live on to cherish her memory

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Mrs. Anulda Carter Sims

May 17, 1917 - August 22, 2015