Vaughnie and Lenora

Lenora Pollyann Clarke was born 9 Mar 1906 in Hickory City, Dent Co., Missouri, daughter of John Baptist Clark. She became the wife of Vaughnie Ecton Simmons on 7 Jun 1930 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois. Lenora died 14 Dec 1978 in Gladstone, Clay Co., Missouri, and is buried in Hermitage Cemetery, Hermitage, Hickory Co., Missouri.

Lenora was an accomplished artist, her oil paintings hung in many of our homes.
Using a deck of playing cards, she would "tell our fortunes".

Lenora was three years older than Vaughnie and previously married. Vaughnie used to wink and say he was married to an older divorcee'.