Ellen Simmons, age 88, formerly of White, died Saturday, December 8, 2007, at Midlands Hospital in Papillion, Nebraska. Funeral services will be 10:30 A.M. Friday, December 14, 2007, at the United Methodist Church in White, with interment in Fairview Cemetery. Visitations will be from 4-8 P.M. Thursday at Eidsness Funeral Chapel in White. Ellen Devorah (Smith) Simmons was born September 2, 1919, at Thunder Hawk, South Dakota, to Everett Earl and Dora Margaret (Fedde) Smith. She spent her early childhood in Carson County. She attended grade school at Roscoe, Mound City, and McIntosh, South Dakota, and graduated from grade school at White Deer Country School. She attended high school at McIntosh for one year, and for three years at Thunder Hawk, where she graduated in 1937. In 1937, she moved with her parents to White. On August 3, 1939, she married Leonard Simmons at Flandreau, South Dakota. They resided with Leonards parents and farmed there for two years. They resided in Brookings and Lucan, Minnesota, and in 1942 moved back to White. Ellen was employed at the White Creamery and Gambles Store, and worked for the White Public School in the lunchroom from 1951 until 1967. She then became employed as the Director of Food Services for the Brookings Public Schools, retiring after 18 years. Leonard died January 29, 1998. Ellen was a member of the United Methodist Church and the Rebekah Lodge. Survivors include two sons: Robert Simmons and his wife Jan of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Jerry Simmons of Richmond, Minnesota; a daughter, Jean Lewis and her husband Steve of Plattsmouth, Nebraska; twelve grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; and a sister, Hazel Bentaas, of Brookings. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a son, William; a sister, Betty Scott; and a brother, Elton Bud Smith.