Bereavement

Greetings Metropolitan Family,

Please continue to lift Von and Collins Bailey, Jr. and daughter, Chanda Brown Wilson in your prayers in the passing of their aunt, Mrs. Sylvia Marie Cox Simmons. The final arrangements are below.

Final arrangements for Mrs. Sylvia Marie Cox Simmons:

Public Viewing:
Friday, March 17, 2023
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Rivers-Morgan Funeral Home, Inc. and Cremations
701 West Street
New Bern, NC 28560

Homegoing Service:
Saturday, March 18, 2023
11:00 AM
Memorial Sanctuary
Rivers-Morgan Funeral Home, Inc. and Cremations
701 West Street
New Bern, NC 28560
Phone: (252) 637-5141

Interment:
New Bern Memorial Cemetery
1112 Chelsea Road
New Bern, NC 28562

With extreme sorrow, we join the Simmons Family in announcing the death of Sylvia Marie Cox Simmons, 86, of the Pleasant Hill Community, New Bern, who departed this life on Monday, March 13, 2023.

Sylvia will be forever cherished by: two loving daughters, Thalia D. Burt (William) and Subrena E. Davis (Carlton); five grandchildren; two Great-Grandchildren; six sisters, Estell Dessaure (William) of St. Stephens, South Carolina, Rubell Bennet of Freeport, New York, Clemmie Debrew (Robert) of Hempstead, New York, Maggie Cox of Vanceboro, Peggy Davis of New Bern, Dorothy Franklin of Vanceboro and DeVicky Whitfield (Clifton) of Greenville; two sisters-in-law, Alfreda Collins (Charles) and Mary Cox of Vanceboro; and a host of very special nephews, nieces, cousins, other relatives and dear friends.

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