Chrisandra Simmons Presley
Age 39, of Bluefield, WV

Fort Oglethorpe -

Chrisandra Simmons "Chris" Presley died Wednesday, September 6, 2000, in a local hospital. She was 39.

She was a native of Bluefield, W.Va., and an honor graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. and of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.  She received her master's degree in educational ministries from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. Before moving to the Chattanooga area, she had worked in a U.N. refugee camp in the Phillipines, as a social worker in West Virginia, and as a live-in counselor at a children's home in Wytheville, Va.

A former employee of Presbyterians for Renewal of Youth Ministry in Chattanooga, Mrs. Presley was an active volunteer in her church,  the Chattanooga Track Club and for local hospitals.  She had attended St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Grace Episcopal Church, and Trenton United Methodist Church.  She served as a race director for the upcoming Susan B. Komen Foundation Race for the Cure, of which proceeds will go toward fighting breast cancer.

She was the granddaughter of the late Roy and Evelyn Simmons.

Survivors include her husband, David Presley; parents Danny and Isabell Simmons, brother, Danny Simmons, all of Bluefield; two sisters, Susan Van Hoose, Ravenswood, W.Va., and Tracy Freund, Bluefield; grandparents, Harold and Clara Bell Looney, Bluefield; nieces and nephews.

The funeral will be Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church with the rev. George Glazier and the Rev. Reece Faucette officiating.

The family will receive friends today from 6 to 9 p.m., at the South Crest Chapel of Lane Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Komen Chattanooga Race for the Cure, P.O. Box 4438, Chattanooga, TN, 37405.