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1911
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2015
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Blanche SIMMONS Obituary
Inez Bell
("Aunt Tootsie" and "Granny")
12-29-1911 to 06-04-2015
Aunt Tootsie's ancestors were one of the first three hundred that Stephen F. Austin brought in to settle Texas. She was a proud member if the DRT (Daughters of the Republic of Texas).
Her parents Faye and Mace Bell produced nine children of which eight lived to maturity. They all had amazing lives themselves. I don't think God ever produced a finer bunch or more special group of folks.
I am making this brief because friends and family already know what Aunt Tootsie was all about. Faith and family meant everything to her unconditionally. She never knew a stranger.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Steve Simmons, parents; Mace and Faye Bell; brothers, A.R. (Buddy) Bell, Sonny (Mace) Bell and Les Bell; sisters, Clara Mae Lansford, Dona Heath and Bessie Lee White.
Aunt Tootsie is survived by one sister, Kathleen LaGrone Floyd, one son, Steve Simmons; two grandchildren, Stephanie Faure and Rebecca Simmons; three great-grandchildren, Tristam Burch, Kaila Burch and Chloe Faure.
The family wants to send out a special thanks to Hospice of Austin and Christopher House, especially Katie Holtz and Peggy Stoll, and a very special thanks to a caring and loving neighbor Jan Brownell.
Visitation will be from nine o'clock until ten o'clock in the morning on Monday 8th of June 2015, followed by a Funeral Service in the Memorial Chapel of Cook-Walden Capital Parks, 14501 North IH-35, Pflugerville, Texas. Interment will follow in Cook-Walden Capital Parks Cemetery, Pflugerville, Texas.
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Sharolyn Yates
June 15, 2015
Tootsie and her husband, Steve, were two of my dad's very best friends. We spent many times together and I remember her as a very kind, sweet, special lady. My prayers to the family for your loss.
Margie Hunter
June 9, 2015
I send my love to Aunt Tootsie's family. I loved all of the Bell Family. What great fun we had.
Margie Hunter
from Carrizo Springs
Rachel Alderete
June 7, 2015
My sweet Aunt Tootsie, I am blessed with all my 46yrs & my precious mom Donna Lee with 65yrs. You touched so many lives in so many ways, an angel on earth! I know mom was greeting you at Heaven's door. Be in peace sweet Aunt Tootsie, all my love...rachel.
Susan Patterson-Henry
June 7, 2015
Mrs. Simmons the most kindest, sweetest lady on this earth. Very patient, she taught me how to play Bonaparte's retreat on the piano. How she could play the piano and that beautiful organ. She was a natural. We use to stay up on Saturday nights to watch movies. My mom & I spent every Saturday nights just to stay up to watch movies. All the Christmas parties and New Year's parties are such a good memory of my childhood. Which could not have been possible if it had not been for Mrs. Simmons. She use to tell Poppy to go on to bed. Such a fine lady, very talented, intelligent and I'm so blessed to have had her in my life.
June 7, 2015
Mrs. Simmons, my neighbor for 45 years, was a delightful, intelligent woman right up until her passing. Crossword and jumble word puzzles were our brain fitness pastime. In later years she looked forward to her Meals on Wheels contacts and especially loved having Angie with her children help deliver and Dawn tell of her latest adventure. She never expected, but always appreciated, any act of loving kindness. She was a remarkable woman and I will miss her greatly.
Jan Brownell
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