Bill A. Simco

Bill was born July 14, 1938, in a two room white house in Mountainburg, AR. He died January 17, 2016 in Memphis, TN after a 3-year odyssey with pancreatic cancer. He was the son of Seaph and Jessie France Simco and the brother of Jim Simco of Phoenix, AZ and Patsy Simco and her husband Larry Goodner of Mountainburg, AR. He was husband to Cheryl and father to Billy. He was uncle to Patsy’s daughters Jennifer and Melissa and too many Goudie nephews and nieces to list. Bill graduated from Mountainburg High School in 1956, College of the Ozarks in 1960 and the University of Kansas in 1966. He had a 48-year career at the University of Memphis as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and co-Director of the Ecological Research Center. Bill will return to …