- Date Of Birth: March 1, 1934
- Date Of Death: April 12, 2019
- State: Colorado
Aron Lordell Sims, Sr. was born on March 1, 1934, in Marvel, Arkansas to his parents, Marshall Sims and Annie Mae Luckydue Sims. He was the youngest of two children born to this union; his sisters name was Bertha Lee McGee (Sims). He received his early and secondary education in Arkansas where he graduated from Holly Grove High School. His friend William T. Lowery remembers, “in grade school Aron would always be the first to be at blackboard to work out the math problems and ten out of ten times he would have the answers correct.” Aron was known as a “pretty boy” who spent most of his summers in Chicago.
On February 26, 1954, Aron united in holy matrimony to Essie Beatrice Miller in Council Bluff Iowa. He initially met her at a school dance and would later go on to state, “I’m going to marry that gal.” To this union, Lawrence Edward, Sharon Marie, Karl Ivas, Myron Ray, Aron Lordell Jr., Anthony Wordell, Monica Lynn, James Lacey, and Marshall Eugene were born.
Aron was employed by the City of Omaha and Cudahy Meat Packing Plant, in Omaha, Nebraska. Upon relocating to Denver, Colorado, he continued to work for Cudahy Meat Packing Plant until the plant closed. He took a job at Gate’s Rubber Company, six weeks in to the job, he stated, “Smelling rubber was not for me.” So, he obtained employment at Safeway’s meat warehouse until the department closed and went on to work for Denver Public Schools as a bus driver and where he retired. When he was assigned a new route as a driver, Aron enjoyed telling the story of children who would ask him, “Mr. Bus Driver are you going to get us lost? He would reply if I do, we will be lost together.” He is remembered by many of his friends and college for being a road map.
