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- "SIMS, Richard Wilson, husband, father, grandfather, and friend, passed away surrounded by love on Thursday, October 1, 2020, at Cone Health Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, North Carolina, after a long illness. Born on September 9, 1946, to Karl and Hannah (Wilson) Sims, Richard grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, playing baseball and joining the Boy Scouts, where he earned the Eagle Scout Award. He earned a BA in Business Administration from the Detroit Institute of Technology and later, a MA in Professional Management from Indiana Northern, which he attended on the weekends.</line><line /><line>In his first job as an accountant at Burroughs Corporation, he wore a seersucker suit and caught the eye of a co-worker, Kathleen A. Holub. Their marriage endured for 51 years until his passing, and they had four children, Christopher, twins Melissa and a beautiful baby boy (both deceased), and Elizabeth, and they raised their family in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and in Roswell, Georgia. His career also included long stints at Contel Corporation and Verizon Communications. While he was not much of a typist, and his hand-writing earned stern looks from his mother, a Latin teacher, he was a wizard with the adding machine and excelled in customer service. He traveled widely for his career and he once received, unexpectedly, a trophy mailed to his home from Delta Airlines, congratulating him on flying more than two million miles.</line><line /><line>Although he had only cats growing up, and he claimed not be an animal person, this changed the day he drove home to find a cute puppy in his son
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1946 - 2020 (74 years)
