"Dear Mary, I was sorry to hear about your Mom. I think of you often as I think of my Angels on Earththat have helped me through my life. My thoughts and prayers are with you, Ken and the kids. Please e-mail a quick note on how you and the family are doing. I think of you SO often. Love From, Lisa Keefe Tremblay PS. Christopher got married this past summer. Boy how the years have flown by."
In loving memory of
Mary E. Simmons
January 28, 1918 - September 28, 2005
Middletown, RI - Mary E. Simmons, 87, of 1998 West Main Road Middletown, died Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at home in Middletown, RI. She was the wife of the late Alexander Barker Simmons who died in August 2004. Born in Delta, UT on January 28, 1918, she was the daughter of the late Edmund and Eunice Kendrick Hibbard. Mrs. Simmons moved to Chatham, Massachusetts at the age of 8. After graduating high school she moved to Newport for nursing school at Newport Hospital. She then married Alexander Simmons in February 1941. After her children grew up she worked for several years as a private service nurse. Mrs. Simmons is a member of St. Marys Episcopal Church, and the Newport Hospital Alumni Association. She spent most of her time caring for her family, and helping her husband on the Simmons Farm in Middletown. She is survived by two sons Alexander Barker Simmons Jr. and his wife Patricia of Middletown, RI, and John E. Simmons and his wife Cynthia of Tiverton, RI, three daughters Mary Elizabeth Owens and her husband Kenneth of Wickford, RI, Cynthia Louise Simmons and her husband Bob Hurley of Portsmouth, RI, and Eunice Ann Gizzi and her husband Ralph of Portsmouth, RI, twelve grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her brother George Hibbard and her sister Elizabeth Eldridge. Her funeral will be held on Sunday, October 2, 2005, at 1:30 PM in St. Marys Episcopal Church, 324 East Main Road, Portsmouth.Burial will be Private.Donations may be made in her memory to Hospice Outreach, 502 Bedford Street, Fall River, MA 02721 or to St. Marys Episcopal Church Building Fund, 324 East Main Road, Portsmouth, RI 02871.
Tributes
"met your mother/grandmother, when i worked at wanumetonomy golf course with Christine, and enjoyed stopping by the farm stand. Please accept my condolences on your loss, my thoughts and prayers are with you. Bob Weaver"
"Our Deepest sympathies for the surviving family. Mary, your Mom was always good to me and loved seeing us together doing gardening things, planting roses, digging holes, and setting the flower bed. I will miss her. Stay strong and may God Bless her and keep her in Heaven everlasting."
"Dear Mary, Ken, and Family, Please accept my sincere condolences on the lose of your mother/grandmother. I only met her once at your wedding many years ago but remember her as a warm person. I know the good memories of your time together will far outweigh the lose you feel now."