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Bessie Simmons
Born in Illinois
73 years
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     Bessie Ann Simmons, 73, of Peoria, passed away at 1:12 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, at the OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home in Peoria.
     Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 13, 2016, at the Northside Church of the Nazarene in Peoria, with Dr. John Spohn officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church. Interment will be at Swan Lake Memory Gardens in Peoria.
     Bessie was born June 17, 1942 in Elmwood, a daughter of Vernon Darrell and Marianne Elizabeth (LaFallotte) Brown. She married Emery Charles Albee on September 28, 1961. He preceded her in death on November 17, 1996. She married Robert W. Simmons on June 14, 1997 in Washington. He preceded her in death on January 16, 2016 in Peoria. She was also preceded in death by her parents; son, Michael Albee; and three brothers, Albert and David Hacker and James Underwood.
     She is survived by her daughter, Theresa Ernst of Peoria; stepchildren, Jeri (Mark) DuBois of Washington, Rae (Michael Sr.) Yates of Peoria, Robert Simmons Jr. of Washington, Laura Bowles of Creve Coeur and Kettra (Leo) Baker of Leroy; sisters, Jeanette Bridgman of Peoria and Sharon (Rick) Tannhauser of Creve Coeur; sixteen grandchildren; and thirty-five great-grandchildren.
     Bessie earned her Associates Degree in Computer Science from Illinois Central College. She retired as a Homemaker for Community Care Systems in Peoria. She was formerly employed as a Computer Programmer for Foster & Gallagher in Peoria. She was a member of Living Rock Church in Peoria Heights.
     Memorial contributions may be made in Bessie’s name to the OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home in Peoria.
     Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Clary Funeral Home, 3004 West Lake Avenue, in Peoria.

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Hendrick Polanco My deepest condolences February 12, 2016

My deepest condolences.  May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...

John 11:32-45

32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”

38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”

45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;

Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/dead-live-again-tract/dead-live-again