Funeral services for 88-year-old Sara Babe” Simenson of St. James, Minnesota, will be held Thursday morning, March 20, 2014, at 11 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Butterfield, Minnesota, located at 450 Second Street South. Interment will be in Butterfield City Cemetery, located 1/2 mile south of the southern city limits of Butterfield on Watonwan County Road #5, south of Minnesota State Highway #60. Pastor Lowell Asplund will officiate at the services. A reception will be held at the church following interment.
Sturm Funeral Home of St. James is handling the funeral arrangements.
Visitation will be held at the church the day of the funeral from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Sara “Babe” (Quiring) Simenson passed away on Sunday, March 16, 2014, in St. James.
Sara Quiring was born on the family farm near Delft, Minnesota on May 10, 1925, the daughter of John and Anna (Penner) Quiring. She attended country school through the eighth grade, then Bingham Lake Public High School and Mountain Lake Public High School each for a year before graduating in 1944 from St. James Public High School.
She moved to Seattle, Washington and worked in a factory before returning to Minnesota and marrying Donald Gorman. They moved to Browerville, Minnesota where she lived for 10 years, returning to St. James where she worked for J.C. Penneys for 15 years. She married Clifford Simenson in March 1976. She owned and operated the grocery store in LaSalle, Minnesota for three years.
Babe, as most people know her, enjoyed crocheting, sewing, cooking and watching football.
She is survived by her sons, Randy (Darlene) Gorman of Jordan, Minnesota; Warren (Lynette) Gorman of Sartell, Minnesota; Terry (Denise) Gorman of Portland, Oregon; eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews: Anne Isder of Alexandria, Minnesota; Dorothy and Richard Burns of West Islip, New York; Betty and Douglas Roiger of New Ulm, Minnesota; Peter and Karen Krause of Council Bluffs, Iowa; John Krause of Nipomo, California and James and Christine Krause of Sioux City, Iowa.
Babe was preceded in death by her husband, Clifford; brother;\, John Quiring and sister, Anne Krause.
