Winston Sims Obituary
Funeral service for Mr. Henry Winston Sims will be held at 2:00PM Tuesday, January 13, 2026, in the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Rd. Monroe with Rev. Ben Hackler officiating. Interment will follow at Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:00PM Tuesday, January 13, 2025, until service time at the funeral home.
Mr. Sims was born on February 4, 1944, in Monroe and passed away on January 10, 2026, in Monroe.
Mr. Sims graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in 1962. There he met the love of his life, Ann Eppinette, and were married for 63 years and together had 3 children. After high school, Winston joined the Air Force and served 4 years at Travis Air Force Base in California where they met many lifelong friends. They moved back to their hometown of Monroe where Winston briefly worked with United Gas and then went to work with South Central Bell/AT&T until he retired in 1999. Winston was an avid outdoorsman. His love of duck and deer hunting, fishing, and recently in his later years, golf, provided and continues to provide countless hours of entertainment for the stories he tells to his friends and family. Winston could always be seen at any of his grandkids activities. If Winston was not at a baseball field or a golf course, then he could be found at home watching GameChanger and a game on TV.
Mr. Sims was preceded in death by his parents, J. D. Sims and Maggie Juanita Riser Sims.
Survivors include his wife Ann Sims; children, Robert Sims and wife Joyce, Mark Sims and wife Lana, Wendi Tilmon and husband John; grandchildren, Alex Johnson, Shelby Sims and wife Raegan, Ronni Hughes and husband Jonathan, Sean Tilmon, Sarah Boyett and husband Joel, Easton Sims, and Sterling Sims; great granddaughters, Annie Sims and Lucie Sims; best friend and fishing buddy, Marion Reagan; and two fur babies.
Pallbearers will be Alex Johnson, Shelby Sims, Sean Tilmon, Sterling Sims, Jonathan Hughes, and Joel Boyett. Honorary pallbearers will be Marion Reagan, Mickey McCarty, Virgil Watson, and Mike Worley.
Memorials may be made to St. Judes.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
2308 Sterlington Rd, Monroe, LA 71203
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