Anne Simone Marshall

(March 19, 1934 – February 7, 2024)

Anne Neukamm Marshall, 89, peacefully passed under Hospice care from her earthly to heavenly existence on February 7, 2024, soon after her family shared their parting words and prayers with her.

If Anne’s life had to be summarized in a single word, it would have to be resilience. She was the third of four surviving children born to Angelo and Sarah Simone, a proud Italian-American family, in Brooklyn, New York. With two older brothers, Vincent and Frank Simone, who, along with Frank’s wife, Mary, predeceased her, and a younger sister, Rita Perkins, who survives her, she grew up with love in a one-bedroom apartment in the Dyker Heights neighborhood that was dominated by St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church, where her family were active and devout parishioners. Anne graduated from the City College of New York with a Sociology degree and obtained a Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University. Shortly after graduation, she married the love of her life, Bruno J. “Butch” Neukamm, immediately after his graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in June of 1957.

In the ensuing years, Anne dutifully assumed the role of a U.S. Army officer’s wife and mother to their two sons, John, who was born in Frankfurt Germany in 1960, and Michael, who was born at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico in 1962. Butch’s Army career flourished, and prior to his tragic death in a plane crash in January of 1967, they had resided in eight different Army Posts. On the day of his death, Anne was starting her first day as a social worker, but, instead, she had to put that career on hold to care for her two young sons. Nearly two years later, she married a good friend who had been a year behind Butch at West Point, Jon Marshall, as he left Army life to begin an engineering career in Oklahoma.

After a year, Jon decided that civil engineering could not hold his interest, so he opted to attend law school. After three years, Anne tired of Oklahoma and convinced Jon to complete his law studies at the University of Miami so she could be closer to her sister’s family and other friends in that area, and, for the first time after graduating college, she and her family resided in a single location for nearly six years. Eventually, Jon’s legal and banking careers took them to Clearwater, Florida, and, after their sons graduated high school, Anne and Jon made the difficult decision to divorce.

Anne then embarked on a successful real estate career before moving to Palm Beach County to take on a position as a director of the 45th Street Mental Health Center, an inpatient and outpatient facility which provided treatment for patients with mental health and substance abuse disorders. Upon her retirement, Anne, who couldn’t stand to be alone, secured a receptionist/office manager position at Fran Murphy Interiors in Palm Beach until she decided to move back to the Tampa Bay area for the last eleven years of her life. She enjoyed six years of great health at the Harbour House Condominiums until 2018, and, during that time, she was an active member of Christ the King Catholic Church, where she was a member of Circle 12 and served as a Stephen’s Minister. She loved her faith and her regular lunches with her church friends, as well as with her West Point wives and widows’ group. She also loved spending time with her children and grandchildren. Unfortunately, her declining health ultimately necessitated her move to an assisted living facility, and, eventually, to The Estate at Hyde Park Memory Care Facility (next door to her former condominium), where she received loving and compassionate care for the remainder of her life.

Anne is survived by her sons, John Neukamm and Michael Neukamm, their respective wives (who she considered to be her own daughters), Kathy and Karen, her grandchildren, Christopher Neukamm (and his wife, Marty Fernandez), Amanda Bolli (and her husband, Lance Bolli), Ashley Neukamm (and her husband, TJ Armstrong), David Neukamm, Jennifer Douglas (and her husband, Arkadiusz Douglas), Frances Millner (and her husband, Jonathon Millner), nine great-grandchildren, her sister, Rita Perkins, her beloved brother-in-law, Joe Perkins, Sally Simone (her sister-in-law and surviving spouse of Vincent Simone), her beloved sister-in-law, Carole Neukamm, many adored nieces and nephews, and her dear friends, Geri Callahan and their fellow Circle 12 ladies, and Sue House and their fellow West Point wives and widows.

Anne’s funeral Mass will take place at 1:00 PM on March 23, 2024, in the Christ the King Catholic Church Chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests that those who wish to honor Anne make contributions in her memory to Christ the King Catholic Church or to LifePath Hospice.