Ginger Lynn Fletcher Simms

Ginger Lynn Fletcher Simms born at Ft. McClellan Army Hospital, Sept. 25, 1968, died in the afternoon of July 26, 2020 of heart issues in Trussville, Alabama at St. Vincent’s Hospital East. Ginger was 51.

She is survived by her best friend and husband, Donnie Simms, and her three cats, Ringo, Thurston and Lokie that she also loved. Other surviving family members are her mother, Yonnie Yvette Fletcher, her sisters, Geneva Mae Wilkerson and Gina Laura Strickland. She also is survived by her nephews, Donovan Craig Wilkerson, Christopher Shawn Tucker, James Andrew Tucker, and William Fletcher. Her surviving nieces are Virginia Leanne Tillery, Mallory Elizabeth Bryant and Mandy Elizabeth Johnson. She is preceded in death by her father, George Everett Fletcher and her brother, George Victor Fletcher. She has eleven great nephews and nieces and one great-great nephew.

Ginger was born to a military family and showed herself to be precocious as a child. She was a quick learner at whatever she set her mind to learn. She went to Jacksonville State University, but later transferred to the University of Alabama. She found herself yearning for spiritual instruction. She enrolled at Southeastern Bible College and graduated in 1999.

She participated in choir and went on several mission trips to Romania with a Southeastern Bible College team. At Shades Mountain Independent Church in Birmingham, she was in a praise band where she met her future husband. They became deeper friends during one of those mission trips to Romania. They got married in 2003, at the Southeastern campus.

Ginger worked a lot of different places, because she knew how to convince people that she had the skills they needed. She worked in retail, banking, photography, office management, and at the Greystone complex in Birmingham, Al, as a service client specialist at Power School. Power School restructured, and sent both her and her husband to work at home. When that job ended she transitioned to a new phase in her life when she went to work for Jefferson County as an accounting assistant.

Her hobbies included playing XBOX with her nephews, table top games, and being the family researcher on Ancestry.com.

None of this describes her funny, kooky, zany sense of humor that made part of this world turn around.

To say her family will miss her does not say enough. Friday night game night will not be the same without you.