{"id":93517,"date":"2019-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=93517"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:08:33","slug":"john-buddy-h-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/14\/john-buddy-h-sims\/","title":{"rendered":"John &#8220;Buddy&#8221; H. Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Hancock Sims, 76, born and raised in Tampa, recently relocated to Floral City, died on June 14, 2019.  He proudly served his country as a member of the United States Air Force and was a reserve officer for the Tampa Police Department for a number of years, also owning and operating Turn Key Telcom for over 40 years.  John loved boating and classic cars.  <\/p>\n<p>Surviving family members include his son, George Alan Draffin and his wife Lynda of Floral City; sister, Alice Dean of St. Petersburg; step-grand and great grandchildren; nephew, Rick Shoun and his wife Vicki; niece, Sheila Pierce and her husband Bill; beloved grandnieces and grandnephews, and many friends.  John was preceded in death by his loving wife of 50 years, Myra Caroline Sims on June 5, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A committal service is scheduled for Monday, June 24, 2019 at 11:00 AM at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, FL where full military honors will be rendered by Floral City VFW #7122.  Cremation care provided by the Chas E. Davis Funeral Home with Crematory, Inverness, FL.  Please visit Legacy.com to leave condolences to the family.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Hancock Sims, 76, born and raised in Tampa, recently relocated to Floral City, died on June 14, 2019. He proudly served his country as a member of the United States Air Force and was a reserve officer for the Tampa Police Department for a number of years, also owning and operating Turn Key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114260,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93517\/revisions\/114260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}