WIFE OF SIMON, MELVIN RALPH
SGT US ARMY

Patricia J. Simon, 85, Sturgis, died at Rapid City Regional Hospital on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, Jan. 12, 2007, at Kinkade Funeral Chapel with Pastor Keith Nelson officiating. Inurnment will be Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007, at Black Hills National Cemetery.

Pat, the former Patricia Josephine Arrundale, and Melvin Simon were married May 10, 1947.

She is survived by two daughters, Capt. Lynn Simon, SC, USN, Ret and her husband, Capt. Gary Averett, SC, USN, Ret of Tucson, AZ and Wanda Hansen and her husband, Gerald of Rapid City; one granddaughter, Cassy Hansen of Rapid City; her sister, Lorraine Hacecky of Oxnard, CA; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, and one brother, Walter Arrundale.

She was born in Utica, S.D., on March 19, 1921, to Harry M. and Rose V. (Bartos) Arrundale. After her graduation from Yankton High School, Pat attended the Nettleton Business College in Sioux Falls. Pat was employed in the admissions office at South Dakota State University until WWII caused a reduction in the number of students and staff at SDSU. Pat then returned to Sioux Falls where she was employed at a photo studio until her marriage to Si.
Pat and Si moved to Deadwood shortly after their marriage. Pat was a home maker until 1963 when she went to work as the bookkeeper for the New York Store in Deadwood where she remained employed until approximately 1976. In the fall of 1969, Pat and Si purchased the Sunnyside Motel on upper Main Street in Deadwood which they operated until they retired in 1980. They lived in Sturgis from 1980 until his death Nov 10, 2006, after which Pat was a resident of Clarkson Health Care Facility in Rapid City.
Pat was an excellent cook, an accomplished seamstress, and known to her immediate family as someone who could do math in her head faster than any one else could using an adding machine or calculator. Pat and Si enjoyed many activities in their retirement, including spending time with family, fishing, boating, and traveling in an RV.

The family requests memorial donations be made to The Alzheimera's Association, 225 N Michigan Ave, Fl 17, Chicago Ill 60601-7633.