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Joseph Raymond Simpler
Posted 12/23/06
Joseph Raymond Simpler, 87 REHOBOTH BEACH - Joseph Raymond Simpler of Rehoboth Beach died Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006, in Beebe Medical Center, Lewes. He was 87. Mr. Simpler was an outdoorsman, a history …
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Joseph Raymond Simpler
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Joseph Raymond Simpler, 87
REHOBOTH BEACH - Joseph Raymond Simpler of Rehoboth Beach died Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006, in Beebe Medical Center, Lewes. He was 87.
Mr. Simpler was an outdoorsman, a history buff and a champion golfer who took up the sport at age 9, starting out as a caddy at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club. Then located in downtown Rehoboth Beach, the back door of Mr. Simpler's family's Christian Street home looked out on the golf course, where the second tee sat about 200 feet away. He caddied until he was 19 years old and later became a member of the club.
His best score on the club's original course was in the 1930s when he scored a 67, accomplished in part by six consecutive birdies. His best on the current golf course was a 71, played in 1965. He competed in the Delaware Amateur Open golf tournament. He won club championship matches in 1954 and 1955.
He authored a history of the Rehoboth Beach Country Club for its 75th anniversary. The article was published in the Cape Gazette in August 2000 and recalls many of Mr. Simpler's memories.
Believing that golf was a walking sport, especially during tournaments, Mr. Simpler never rode in a golf cart in 28 years of tournament play, except for a benefit for Lewes Meals on Wheels. In the anniversary article, Mr. Simpler wrote that as he got older, he stopped keeping score. "At age 80, I look on my golf as a way of making a walk more interesting."
A Rehoboth Beach native, he graduated from Rehoboth High School in 1938 and attended the University of Delaware.
Mr. Simpler served in the Army Signal Corps in World War II and was stationed at Hickam Field, Hawaii, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
A self-employed building contractor, he took great pride in his work, retiring in 2000 at the age of 80.
Mr. Simpler was the Rehoboth Beach Country Club's longest active member, along with being a member of the Peninsula Golf Association, Epworth United Methodist Church in Rehoboth Beach and the Rehoboth Historical Society.
He is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Irene K. Simpler; three nieces, Shirley Dawson of Lewes, Donna Miller of Wilmington and Barbara Kay Alexander of Petaluma, Calif.; two nephews, Michael DeLoy of Milton and George William Maloney of Alamo, Calif.; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.
Services will be 11 a.m. Friday in All Saints' Episcopal Church, 18 Olive Ave., Rehoboth Beach. A reception will follow at the church.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Delaware State Golf Association Scholarship Fund, 240 West Side Dr., Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971.
Arrangements by Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Lewes.
REHOBOTH BEACH - Joseph Raymond Simpler of Rehoboth Beach died Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006, in Beebe Medical Center, Lewes. He was 87.
Mr. Simpler was an outdoorsman, a history buff and a champion golfer who took up the sport at age 9, starting out as a caddy at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club. Then located in downtown Rehoboth Beach, the back door of Mr. Simpler's family's Christian Street home looked out on the golf course, where the second tee sat about 200 feet away. He caddied until he was 19 years old and later became a member of the club.
His best score on the club's original course was in the 1930s when he scored a 67, accomplished in part by six consecutive birdies. His best on the current golf course was a 71, played in 1965. He competed in the Delaware Amateur Open golf tournament. He won club championship matches in 1954 and 1955.
He authored a history of the Rehoboth Beach Country Club for its 75th anniversary. The article was published in the Cape Gazette in August 2000 and recalls many of Mr. Simpler's memories.
Believing that golf was a walking sport, especially during tournaments, Mr. Simpler never rode in a golf cart in 28 years of tournament play, except for a benefit for Lewes Meals on Wheels. In the anniversary article, Mr. Simpler wrote that as he got older, he stopped keeping score. "At age 80, I look on my golf as a way of making a walk more interesting."
A Rehoboth Beach native, he graduated from Rehoboth High School in 1938 and attended the University of Delaware.
Mr. Simpler served in the Army Signal Corps in World War II and was stationed at Hickam Field, Hawaii, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
A self-employed building contractor, he took great pride in his work, retiring in 2000 at the age of 80.
Mr. Simpler was the Rehoboth Beach Country Club's longest active member, along with being a member of the Peninsula Golf Association, Epworth United Methodist Church in Rehoboth Beach and the Rehoboth Historical Society.
He is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Irene K. Simpler; three nieces, Shirley Dawson of Lewes, Donna Miller of Wilmington and Barbara Kay Alexander of Petaluma, Calif.; two nephews, Michael DeLoy of Milton and George William Maloney of Alamo, Calif.; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.
Services will be 11 a.m. Friday in All Saints' Episcopal Church, 18 Olive Ave., Rehoboth Beach. A reception will follow at the church.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Delaware State Golf Association Scholarship Fund, 240 West Side Dr., Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971.
Arrangements by Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Lewes.
