born on Myrtle Grove Sound April 25, 1908
died on Nov 16, 1986 (buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Wilmington, as was his wife, Marguerite Southerland Simmons)
known as "Sim" to his friends
father: Thomas Nathan Simmons (a carpenter, died when Thomas was a teenager)
mother: Mary Batson (related to the Batsons who once owned what is now Belvedere Plantation in Hampstead)
designed the Simmons Sea Skiff
son Thomas Norwood Simmons Jr drowned in a boating accident in April 1972, his father finished his remaining orders, then got out of the boat business.
article: Wilmington Star-News, Jan 22, 1989
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