Obituary of Margaret Simon

Margaret Simon, 98, died Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield. Born Margareta Wolfinger in Cologne, Germany in 1906, she was the daughter of Franz Wolfinger and Therese Bradenburg. She immigrated to New York in 1928, where she met and married another German immigrant, Edmund Simon. Like many immigrants, they worked long and hard at low paying jobs to start a new life for themselves, but they loved the US and became citizens in the 1930s. They later moved to New Jersey, living for a time in Bradley Gardens before moving to Branchburg in the late 1940s where they built, owned, and operated the Oak Hill Motel. In the early 1960s they moved to Williamsport, Maryland where they lived for several years before retiring to Seminole, Florida in 1968. During her retirement years she pursued her lifelong love of arts and crafts. After many happy years in Florida, she and Edmund moved back to NJ in 1999 to be near family that lived in Gillette. Mrs. Simon was predeceased by her husband Edmund in 2000. She is survived by her son Edmund, daughter-in-law Joyce, grandchildren Kim Spurlock, Edmund A. Simon and Krista Simon and great grandchildren Patrick Spurlock, Courtney Spurlock, Caitlyn Spurlock, Samantha Simon and Jack Simon. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m., Saturday May 8th at the South Branch Reformed Church in Branchburg. Interment will be at the South Branch Reformed Church cemetery, Branchburg, NJ. Visitation will be on Friday May 7th, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Higgins Home for Funerals, 752 Mountain Blvd., Watchung, NJ