Personal Life
Simmons has been married three times:
- His first wife walked out on him in 1959, leaving him with custody of their two daughters:
- Scheryle Simmons Patigian (born 1953)
- Lisa Simmons Epstein (born 1956)
- His second wife was Sandra K. Saliba. Sandra would later become Braniff Airlines first female pilot.They divorced in 1980. They had two children:
- Andrea Leigh Simmons Swanson (born 1965)
- Serena Sha Simmons Connelly (born 1970)
- In June 1980, he married his third and current wife, Annette Caldwell Fleck (born 1936), an interior designer with two children from a previous marriage. She is a native of Tyler, Texas and a graduate of Southern Methodist University. After graduating, she taught second and third grade in Dallas and at Clark Field, a U.S. air base in the Philippines. In October 2004, Mrs. Simmons was featured on the Oprah! television show, giving a tour of Simmons' boyhood town, Golden, Texas, during its sweet potato festival. In another episode, "Annette's Tea Party," Mrs. Simmons entertainment style was a feature.
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