Remembering Wanda Westbrook, Last Surviving Child Of The Simmons Family That Helped Shape Riverview

Remembering Wanda Westbrook, Last Surviving Child Of The Simmons Family That Helped Shape Riverview

Wanda Ruth Simmons Westbrook passed away on November 22, 2025, at the age of 95. With her passing, Riverview lost one of its last living connections to the families who shaped the community long before paved roads, interstate highways and large-scale development. Wanda Westbrook was the last surviving child of Herman G. Simmons and Mildred Long Simmons. She grew up in a Riverview of dirt roads, open land and working farms and lived to see it bec…