RUTH ANN SIMON

Dateline/Medicine Lodge

Ruth Ann Simon, 81, died Aug. 25, 2023, at the Attica Longterm Care Center Facility.

She was born Dec. 5, 1941, at Zenda, Kansas the youngest daughter of triplets of Richard and Frances Ricke Schmidt.  A resident of Medicine Lodge, of the Nashville and St. Leo communities,  she was was a retired Dietary Supervisor at the Medicine Lodge Hospital and the Cunningham Hilltop Manor; and was also the custodian at the Medicine Lodge High School.

Ruth Ann was a member of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Medicine Lodge.

On July 19, 1960, she married Edwin H. Simon at Sharon, Kansas; he died May 6, 2018.  Survivors include sons Roger, Kevin and his wife Lana, Michael, and Thomas and his wife Michelle; daughters Ronda O'Mara and her husband Mike and Pam Livengood and her husband Brad; brother Richard Schmidt (the oldest triplet); sisters Virginia Martin, Sr. Imelda Schmidt, Joyce Stockert and Rosalie Spade (the middle triplet); and six grandchildren.  She was also preceded in death by brothers Raymond and Edwin; Marieda Voegeli.

Parish rosary will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 1, 2023 at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Medicine Lodge followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m.  The family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Thursday at the Livingston Funeral Home, Kingman.  Graveside services will be 1:30 p.m., Friday at the St. Leo Catholic Chuch.

Memorials may be made with Dominican Sisters of Great Bend, the Holy Rosary Catholic Church or the Pratt Area Humane Society, all in care of Livingston Funeral Home, Kingman.