**Pioneer Woman Passes Away -- Like the shock of ripened grain when it reaches maturity is gathered into the harvest storehouse, Mrs. Margaret SIMMONS, an honored pioneer of Tuolumne County, who had lived in the Groveland District for 70 years of continuous residence, passed away Thursday at the ripe age of 90 years and 2 days. Death was the culmination of 4 months of lingering illness. The deceased was a native of Ireland, but came to this country when a young girl with her parents. She was married twice, her first husband's name being COYLE, and her second SIMMONS. She had children by both marriages, and although left a widow many years ago, she raised to maturity 4 children, 2 sons & 2 daughters: Thos. F. COYLE, of Fresno, Robert T. SIMMONS, the honored chairman of the board of supervisors, from Groveland, Mrs. Elizabeth SHAFER of San Francisco, and Mrs. Katherine A. JAMES of Modesto. "Grandma SIMMONS," as she was familiarly known by her neighbors and intimate friends, was noted for her kind disposition and her liberal hospitality. She often boarded the school teachers of the Groveland school, and always treated them with uniform courtesy. These amiable traits were intensified in all of her dealings with the members of her own family, and all of her children loved their mother. A kind hearted and beloved woman has passed away. The funeral will be held this Saturday morning at 10 o'clock under the direction of Undertaker O'BEIRNE, with high mass at the Big Oak Flat Catholic Church, conducted by Rev. Father James GILMARTIN, with the interment in the Catholic cemetery.
**Pioneer Woman Passes Away -- Like the shock of ripened grain when it reaches maturity is gathered into the harvest storehouse, Mrs. Margaret SIMMONS, an honored pioneer of Tuolumne County, who had lived in the Groveland District for 70 years of continuous residence, passed away Thursday at the ripe age of 90 years and 2 days. Death was the culmination of 4 months of lingering illness. The deceased was a native of Ireland, but came to this country when a young girl with her parents. She was married twice, her first husband's name being COYLE, and her second SIMMONS. She had children by both marriages, and although left a widow many years ago, she raised to maturity 4 children, 2 sons & 2 daughters: Thos. F. COYLE, of Fresno, Robert T. SIMMONS, the honored chairman of the board of supervisors, from Groveland, Mrs. Elizabeth SHAFER of San Francisco, and Mrs. Katherine A. JAMES of Modesto. "Grandma SIMMONS," as she was familiarly known by her neighbors and intimate friends, was noted for her kind disposition and her liberal hospitality. She often boarded the school teachers of the Groveland school, and always treated them with uniform courtesy. These amiable traits were intensified in all of her dealings with the members of her own family, and all of her children loved their mother. A kind hearted and beloved woman has passed away. The funeral will be held this Saturday morning at 10 o'clock under the direction of Undertaker O'BEIRNE, with high mass at the Big Oak Flat Catholic Church, conducted by Rev. Father James GILMARTIN, with the interment in the Catholic cemetery.
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