Timmy D. Simpkins

December 9, 1960 - October 13, 2019

Timmy D. Simpkins, 58 Kearney resident Timmy D. Simpkins, 58 of Kearney passed away Sunday, October 13th, 2019 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha as a result of heart complications. Memorial services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 21, 2019 at O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home in Kearney. The family requests casual attire for the service. Inurnment will be at Kearney Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Republican City Fire Department. Condolences may be shared online at www.osrfh.com. Services are entrusted to O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral and Cremation Services. Timmy Dean Simpkins was born on December 9th, 1960 in York, Nebraska to Eugene and Twyla (Pinneo) Simpkins. He graduated from Kearney High School in 1979. He grew up in the family store and then was a partner at ENT. The past few years he has been in Republican City running the Outcast Bar and Grill and making many close friends. He enjoyed outdoor sports and recreation, especially golf, hunting and fishing. He also loved Husker Football. Tim, you will be missed. Left to cherish his memory are his parents, Eugene and Twyla Simpkins; two brothers, Gene Simpkins and his wife Julie and family of Kearney and Dale Simpkins and family of Broad Bent, Oregon; three sisters, Lila Simpkins and family in Bellevue, NE, Kathy Shearer and her husband, Mike and family of Kearney, Jenny Deboer and her son of Kearney. He is also survived by his good friends, Trevor M. and John H. He was preceded in death by his grandparents; brother, Gary Lynn; uncle, Virgel Pinneo; aunt, Beverly Ratcliff.