Jackie Kohira Simmons

JACKIE KOHIRA SIMMONS WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 28, 1934 TO HYOSUKE AND TAKE KOHIRA IN KUTCHAN HOKKAIDO JAPAN. IN 1958, SHE MARRIED LIONEL WESLEY SIMMONS. OUT OF LOVE, TRUST, AND FAITH; SHE LEFT HER FAMILY IN JAPAN TO START A NEW ONE AFAR. SPEAKING VERY LITTLE ENGLISH, SHE BRAVELY MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES WHERE SHE EMBRACED AND LOVED HER NEW FAMILY.

JACKIE LOVED TO SEW AND DREW GREAT COMFORT FROM SITTING ALONE IN HER SEWING ROOMS MAKING BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS. WITH GREAT FAMILY URGING, THIS MASTER TAILOR WENT ON TO OPEN HER OWN BOUTIQUE. SUCCESS QUICKLY FOLLOWED AND SHE BECAME A RESPECTED MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY WHERE SHE REMAINED UNTIL SHE RETIRED. JACKIE HAD THREE GREAT LOVES IN HER LIFE: HER HUSBAND LONNIE, HER CHILDREN LYNN AND MARK AS WELL AS HER ENTIRE FAMILY. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HER FAMILY WAS HER LIFE AND THE ONLY THING SHE LIVED FOR. WITH A HEART AS BIG AS TEXAS, SHE CONTINUALLY SACRIFICED HER NEEDS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OTHERS.

AS JACKIE HAS NOW JOINED HER HUSBAND LONNIE OF 42 YEARS; SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER DAUGHTER JACQUELINE (REGGIE BURKE) AND HER SON MARK (CHARLENE SIMMONS), THREE GRAND CHILDREN CARISHA, TELISHA, MATTHEW, FIVE GREAT GRAND CHILDREN CHABRIS, ARIANA, GESARIAH, HEAVEN, NEVAEH, HER BROTHERS/SISTER-IN-LAW, WALTER JR., LA VERNE & MASUE, DENISE, ALONG WITH NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

VISITATION WILL BE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 FROM 5:00 TO 8:00 PM AT COLONIAL FUNERAL HOME. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 AT 9:30 AM IN THE COLONIAL FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL. INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW AT FORT SAM HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.