Mary E. Simmons

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.