Alice Faye Simmons

December 3, 1942 - December 6, 2021

SIMMONS, Mrs. Alice “Faye” - age 79, passed away on Monday, December 6, 2021 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Oakland. Family hour 10:00AM Monday, December 20, 2021 from the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 268 North Perry Street, with the funeral commencing immediately at 11:00AM. Interment Ottawa Park Cemetery, 61800 Dixie Hwy. Friends and pallbearers will assemble 10:00AM Monday at the funeral home. Mrs. Simmons will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home and may be viewed between 10:00AM - 4:00PM Sunday. Mrs. Simmons leaves to cherish her memory, her children, Elva Simmons, Daphne Simmons, John (Valerie) Simmons, Dexter (Orsi) Simmons and Maynard (Ashantay) Simmons; 18 grandchildren; a host of great-grandchildren; siblings, Alphina Matthews and Arzie (Joyce) McGee; brothers-in-law, Sylvester Simmons and Robert Simmons; sister-in-law, Berna Holmes; and a host of other relatives and friends. Mrs. Simmons was preceded in death by her husband, Johnny Simmons; daughter, Tryphenia; father, James McKelphin; mother, Jessie B. Holmes; and siblings, Herbert James McKelphin, Lloyd Henry McKelphin, Claude E. McKelphin and Jonell Coney.