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Simons -- Katherine Gauss Simons, daughter of Anna Gauss and Arthur Clyde Simons, was born August 23, 1907 and died January 4, 1999. She is survived by cousins Gordon Gauss and wife of Denver, CO, Robert Hook & family of Wapello, IA, and Barbara Hook Montgomery of Minneapolis, MN and family. Katherine grew up in Shenandoah, IA, graduated from Grinnell College, and received her MA Degree from Columbia. At Columbia she also completed her Doctoral work (minus Dissertation). She began teaching at U.N.M. in 1939. Her primary field was Renaissance Literature. She was much involved with the General Honors Program. In 1968 she became a Full Professor and retired in 1973. Katherine's family, students and friends revere, love, and will miss her. Services are to be held at the U.N.M. Alumni Memorial Chapel Monday January 11 at 2 p.m. Memorials may be directed to the"Fund for General Honors" in memory of Katherine Simons and sent to the U.N.M. Foundation Hodgin Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
        Published on: Sat January 09, 1999