Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, March 22, 2010 at 08:46:03 :
Marin Independent Journal
Monday, August 17, 1987
BETTY SIMONTACCHI
Betty Simontacchi of San Rafael, a longtime physical education teacher at Tamalpais High School, died Sunday, Aug. 16, 1987, at Kaiser Hospital after a long illness. She was 52.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Isabella’s Catholic Church in Terra Linda. Burial will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery in San Rafael.
Mrs. Simontacchi was born in Ohio and was a graduate of the University of Dayton. She had lived in Marin since 1958.
For 25 years, she was a teacher at Tamalpais High. As part of her job, she taught classes in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for the American Red Cross.
Survivors are two daughters, Katherine Nestler of Rohnert Park and Karen Simontacchi of San Rafael; a son, Steven Allen of San Rafael; three sisters, Martha Jean Willhoite, Beverly Hartness and Carol Eckstein, all of Dayton; two brothers, Fred and Don Miller, also of Dayton; and a grandson.
Her husband, Allen B. Simontacchi, died previously.
The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Keaton’s Mortuary in San Rafael.
The family has asked that donations in her memory be sent to the American Cancer Society.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds that she was the grandmother of Jack Bruno Nestler.
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