Singer Ginny Simms Dies At 81; She Was Ocean Shores Founder

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Big-band singer Ginny Simms, who also acted in the musical films "Broadway Rhythm" and "Night and Day," has died of a heart attack. She was 81.

Simms died at Desert Hospital on Monday, said her husband, Donald Eastvold, a former Washington state attorney general.

Simms and Eastvold were among the founders of the Washington coastal resort of Ocean Shores in the 1960s. The Ginny Simms Restaurant was the second structure built there. Simms is survived by Eastvold and seven children and stepchildren.