SIMPSON, STANLEY A. Stanley A. Simpson, born January 15, 1925 and raised in Parkton, MD, died August 3, 2008 at 10:30PM at Florida Hospital Orlando from complications following heart surgery.

Stanley served in the US Army Air Corps during WWII in India and on Tinian, maintaining remote control gunnery systems on B-29 Bombers. After the war, Stanley attended the University of North Carolina, graduating with a Masters Degree in History and Teaching as a Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Delta Kappa Inductee.

Afterwards, Stanley served in Civil Service, the Martin Marietta Co. and the General Electric Co. as a training supervisor/director. Stanley worked on the Apollo and Manned Orbiting Laboratory Missions.

Stanley was then employed as a technical education consultant with the Florida Department of Education for the following 20 years. During this period, Stanley worked and lived in Alexandria, Egypt. For all of 1985, working on the "RCA/PVTI Egypt Project", developing a vocational education curriculum for the Egyptian Education System. Intensely interested in politics and government, Stanley served as a Democratic Party Precinct Committeeman in the 1960's and the 1990's.

Stanley was the loving husband for 63 years to wife, Dorothy Morris Simpson; father to sons, Carl and Stephen; daughter, Patricia (Johnnie) Booth; grandfather to Michelle LaGree, Darryl LaGree, Eric Simpson and Sara Simpson.

Funeral services will be held Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10AM in the chapel of Carey Hand Colonial Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may visit the funeral home on Thursday from 6-8PM. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a hospice or any medical research organization.

"I sojourned well; I journeyed well; and well I lie at rest. Pray for me."