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Birth:          24 May 1942 Pocahontas, Pocahontas Co., Iowa
Death:          2 Jun 1954 Fort Dodge, Webster Co., Iowa
Cause of Death: heart failure from rheumatic fever
Burial:         Calvary Cemetery, Pocahontas, Pocahontas Co., Iowa

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Pocahontas Record-Democrat, Pocahontas, Iowa, Thursday, 3 June 1954, pg.7

Sue Simpson, twelve year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Simpson, entered Mercy 
hospital in Fort Dodge Sunday morning. She is seriously ill with rheumatic fever.
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OBITUARY: Pocahontas Record-Democrat, Pocahontas, Iowa, Thursday, 10 June 
1954, pg.1

Suzanne Simpson Died at Age of 12

Mary Suzanne Simpson died Wednesday, June 2, in Mercy hospital at Fort Dodge, 
where she was taken May 30. Death was due to heart failure, resulting from 
complications of an attack of rheumatic fever which she suffered in February, 1950. 
She had not been well since February of this year, but had attended school for short 
periods and cmopleted the 6th grade at Sacred Heart School.

Funeral services were held Saturday morning in Sacred Heart Church with Rev. Fr. 
Jerome Koenig as celebrant of the requiem Mass. Rev. Fr. J. E. tolan of Sac City 
conducted the graveside rites. Burial was in Calvary cemetery. Pallbearers were 
classmates, Richard Shors, Mike O'Brien, Eddie Eichler, Joe Malacek, Roger Drobney 
and Mickey Hoffert. Fifth and sixth grade classmates acted as honorary pallbearers 
and formed a guard of honor at the church and at the cemetery.

Susanne was born May 24, 1942 in Pocahontas, the youngest daughter of Glenn 
Griffin and Marcella Kopriva Simpson. She spent her entire life in Pocahontas where 
she was a member of Sacred Heart Church and attended Sacred Heart School.

Surviving besides her parents are two sisters, Marilyn and Joan and her two 
grandmothers, Mrs. Mary Kopriva of this place and Mrs. Josephine Simpson of 
Kenosha, Wis.

Those from a distance attending the funeral were: Mrs. Josephine Simpson of 
Konosha, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Richardson, Bob and Kay, of Algona, Mr. and 
Mrs. Wm. McCoy and Michael of Jackson, Minn., Ben Poduska, Mrs. Cecil Brush, 
Martin and Brian, of chelsea, Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Johnson and Gary of Manson and 
Mr. and Mrs. John Henrich of Clare.

Parents
SIMPSON Glenn Griffin (26 May 1913 - 19 Jun 1982)
KOPRIVA Marcella Mary (5 Aug 1916 - 23 Dec 1999)

Siblings
SIMPSON Joan ()
SIMPSON Marilyn ()
SIMPSON Mary Suzanne (24 May 1942 - 2 Jun 1954)

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