Daily News | Verna Simpkins, teacher, school counselor, health services president, and church trustee, has died at 94
Verna Simpkins, 94, of Philadelphia, retired schoolteacher and counselor, past president of Covenant House Health Services, and trustee emerita of the First African Baptist Church, died Wednesday, Sept. 14, of cancer at her home.
“She was an original thinker,” said her daughter Melissa Miller. “She solved problems with a common sense viewpoint and was all about making things better.” “We know that she was a wonderful woman of God who loved her family and friends,” members and staff at Nazarene Baptist said in an. Her daughter Velma Chisholm said: “She always told me I could do whatever I wanted to if I worked hard. She was right.”
She and her husband had sons Robert Jr., Jan, and Cornelius, and daughters Velma, Beth, and Melissa. Her husband and son Robert Jr. died earlier. Mrs. Simpkins got to know the families of her students when she was a teacher, and they often greeted her lovingly in the neighborhood after she retired. An adherent of the “it takes a village” concept of education, she was the first adult to expose many of the children to good eating habits and the advantages of mastering math.
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