SIMONSON, Fern A., age 87

Died: Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Visitation: 11:00 a.m. until time of service at the church

Funeral Service: 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at Hope United Methodist Church with Reverend Robb McClintock officiating

Interment: Rest Haven Cemetery, Town of Washington, Wisconsin

Fern A. Simonson, age 87, passed away on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at the Syverson Lutheran Home where she had resided since September 2008.

Fern was born March 14, 1925 to Floyd and Helen (Wilcox) Christie in Greenwood, WI.  In 1942, she graduated from Glen Flora High School.  She was united in marriage to Raymond Simonson on August 26, 1944 in Jump River, WI.  Prior to Ray's passing they spent many happy years wintering in Mission, TX where she enjoyed painting and playing shuffleboard. 

She is survived by her children, Randy (Susan) Simonson, Vicki (Ronald) Anderson, Sheree (Timothy) McMillan, Gregory (Amy) Simonson; grandchildren, Joshua, Peter and Anna Simonson, Jackie (Paul) Barstad, Mark (Marisa) Anderson, Stephanie (Todd) McMillan, William (Brit) McMillan, Scott (Martha) McMillan, Zachary (Karen) Simonson, Katie Simonson, Kelsey Marono, and Hayley Severson; great grandchildren, Jonah, Jordan, Josie, Madelyn, Samuel, Noah and Elijah; brothers, Floyd (Connie) Christie of Prineville Oregon and Perry (Betty) Christie of Anchorage Alaska; sisters-in-law, Jean Scott of West Fork, Arkansas and Loretta Moy of Colfax, Wisconsin; and several nieces and nephews.   

Fern was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond; grandchildren, Ronald Anderson and Elizabeth McMillan; and sisters, Avis St. Martin and Eleanor Amundsen.

Thank you to her friends at Syverson Lutheran Home for their love and care.  Rest in peace Mom, we love you!

Jesus said, "In my Father's house there are many rooms; if it were not so would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am, you may be also.  And you know the way I am going. I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me. Because I live, you will live also."          John 14:2-6, 19