Claire Doss Simmons, in her Last Will and Testament, left a bequest in the amount of $10,000 to the Whitewright Public Library, in the memory of the Doss Simmons Family.

Mrs. Simmons died June 6, 2005, at the age of 83, and at the time of her death, had no immediate family. Her estate also left bequests for the Whitewright Ambulance Service, the Whitewright Masonic Lodge, the First United Methodist Church and the Oak Hill Cemetary Association.

The donation to the library has been placed in the New Building Fund, and is half of the money required to pay the architect for technical drawings needed to begin the next phase of the project.