Simmons, Crystal Mae

1919 - 2015  (95 years)

• Name	Simmons, Crystal Mae  [1]
  Birth	11 May 1919	Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Jan 2015	Katy Manor Care Center, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Burial	7 Jan 2015	Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I21399	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Simmons, James William "WILL",   b. 9 Apr 1891, Boonville Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 1 Apr 1958, Boonville Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Erhardt, Lillie Christina,   b. 30 Dec 1886, Billingsville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 22 Mar 1982, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 95 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	15 Dec 1912	Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [3]
  Family ID	F6783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Branch, Eugene A,   b. 24 Jun 1917, Boonville Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 17 Jun 2000, Cooper County Memorial Hospital, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	9 Apr 1939	Boonville Evangelical and Reformed Church, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [1, 3]
  Children	1. Branch, Jeana,   b. UNKNOWN  [natural]
  Family ID	F7012	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 11 May 1919 - Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA Marriage - 9 Apr 1939 - Boonville Evangelical and Reformed Church, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA Death - 4 Jan 2015 - Katy Manor Care Center, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA Burial - 7 Jan 2015 - Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Crystal M. Branch, 95, of Boonville, passed away at Katy Manor Care Center in Pilot Grove, MO Jan. 4, 2015. Funeral services for Mrs. Branch will be held at Davis Funeral Chapel at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, Jan. 7th with Rev. Glenna McVeigh officiating. Family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at 10:00 o'clock. Burial will follow at Walnut Grove Cemetery. Crystal Mae Branch was born in Boonville May 11, 1919, the daughter of 'Will' Simmons and Lillie Erhardt Simmons. She graduated from BHS in 1936. She married Eugene A. Branch in Boonville, April 9, 1939 and they made Boonville their home their entire life. She was a member of Evangelical United Church of Christ in Boonville. Crystal was a homemaker who enjoyed her hobbies of knitting and crocheting. She enjoyed playing cards, especially pitch with her grandsons, later in life. She was an avid Mizzou Tiger basketball and St. Louis Cardinal fan. Her grandsons were the light of her life, as well as her three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gene and her brothers, Hubert and J.W. Simmons. She leaves behind her daughter Jeana Griesbach (Frank) of Boonville; her grandchildren, Frankie Griesbach (Tamie) of Ashland, MO and Kenny Griesbach ( Jessica) of Ellisville, MO, as well as three great-grandchildren; Frankie, Katherine and Landon Griesbach and many nieces and nephews. Memorials are suggested to the United Church of Christ in Boonville.

  
  

• Sources

  [S250] USA: MO: COOPER: Boonville Daily News: Obituary. https://www.boonvilledailynews.com/ [S2072] USA: Census 1920. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1488411 [S411] USA: MO: COOPER: Marriages. https://cooper.mogenweb.org/CooperBitsMar.htm