Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 6. 2020, at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Pastor Howard Avery will officiate. Burial will be at a later date. Visitation will be on Sunday, January 5th from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. with the family present from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa.
Matthew was born on June 6, 1972 at Cherokee, Iowa to David & Corliss (Camarigg) Simmons. He graduated from Willow Community School in 1990. He then attended Western Iowa Tech receiving an Auto Technician Degree.
Matthew had worked as an auto technician throughout his life at various auto shops and most recently working as a farm laborer. He was a member of the Quimby Baptist Church. He belonged to the Farmall Tractor Club. He enjoyed the bass guitar, shooting pool, music, antique tractors, and he collected steins and hot wheel cars. Matthew was handy and could fix most anything.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Basil & June Camarigg, paternal grandmother Shirley Simmons, and a sister Brooke (Simmons) Goodwin.
He is survived by his four children: Matthew Dylan Simmons of Brookings, S.D.; Audrey Simmons of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Anthony Simmons of Cherokee, Iowa; Clarsie Simmons of Cherokee, Iowa; his parents David and Corliss Simmons of Quimby, Iowa; his sister Ashley Marissa (Graham) Forbes and their children Jarett and Lauren of Le Mars, Iowa; paternal grandfather: Phillip Simmons of Cherokee, Iowa; special friend Julie Chinn of Pierson, Iowa.
[Source: Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa]
Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 6. 2020, at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Pastor Howard Avery will officiate. Burial will be at a later date. Visitation will be on Sunday, January 5th from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. with the family present from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa.
Matthew was born on June 6, 1972 at Cherokee, Iowa to David & Corliss (Camarigg) Simmons. He graduated from Willow Community School in 1990. He then attended Western Iowa Tech receiving an Auto Technician Degree.
Matthew had worked as an auto technician throughout his life at various auto shops and most recently working as a farm laborer. He was a member of the Quimby Baptist Church. He belonged to the Farmall Tractor Club. He enjoyed the bass guitar, shooting pool, music, antique tractors, and he collected steins and hot wheel cars. Matthew was handy and could fix most anything.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Basil & June Camarigg, paternal grandmother Shirley Simmons, and a sister Brooke (Simmons) Goodwin.
He is survived by his four children: Matthew Dylan Simmons of Brookings, S.D.; Audrey Simmons of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Anthony Simmons of Cherokee, Iowa; Clarsie Simmons of Cherokee, Iowa; his parents David and Corliss Simmons of Quimby, Iowa; his sister Ashley Marissa (Graham) Forbes and their children Jarett and Lauren of Le Mars, Iowa; paternal grandfather: Phillip Simmons of Cherokee, Iowa; special friend Julie Chinn of Pierson, Iowa.
[Source: Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa]
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