Frances ?Nana? Simmons
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Frances Moore Glass Simmons and Nana, as she is known to her family, left this mortal world to live eternally with her heavenly Father, on March 18, 2022. Nana was born the third child, and only girl, to Nudie and Sammie Moore, October 18, 1931. She was the youngest of three children and was called "Sissy" by her friends and family. She was born just outside Muleshoe, Texas, in the panhandle of Texas in a small, rural community called Needmore.
Nana grew up on her parents' farm in Needmore. Because she was the only girl and the youngest, she was very protected by her whole family. Legend has it that she was shy, quiet, and a "momma's" girl.
Nana came from a family of farmers and professional and semi-professional baseball players. Her paternal Uncle, Wilcy Moore, played for the New York Yankees from 1927-1933 and her father, Nudie Moore, trained with the New York Yankees. Both her brothers, Don and Wilcy Moore, and husband, Bob Glass, played semi-pro baseball in the 1940s and 1950s. When asked about how she met her first husband, Nana would happily share the story of when, and how, she met Bob Glass. It is one of the family's favorite "Nana" stories. They met at, of course, a baseball game, where he stepped on her foot with his baseball cleats.
She was very bright in school and skipped two entire grades! Thus, she graduated high school at the tender age of sixteen! Besides being a great student, she was a majorette for the marching band! She was also a mean bowler, a competitive golfer, and a card shark!
She married her first husband and the father of her two boys, Bob Glass, at the age of 16! Bob and Nana lived in Chicago, California, and finally settled back in Muleshoe, Texas in those early years. Nana had a job in the General Electric factory in Chicago and loved it.
Nana and Bob moved to El Paso, TX in 1970 for Bob's work as a Division Manager for World Book and Childcraft Encyclopedia. Bob suffered from bad health and eventually retired from his position as a Division Manager. Nana was put in the position of retaining their health insurance, so being the "ambitious person" that she was she went to work for the company. She knocked doors, in the El Paso heat, for years selling World Books and achieved great success doing so.
Bob passed away in 1997. Nana was a widow for several years. She and Bob Glass had been close friends to Bob and Dana Simmons in El Paso. After Bob Simmons' wife passed away, Bob and Nana began dating and subsequently got married in May 2000.
Bob Simmons and Nana lived a fairy tale life until he became ill and passed away in July 2009.
Nana lived alone, in El Paso, from 2009 until 2018 when her son, Tom, finally convinced her to move close to him!
Since September 2020, Nana has resided in the Memory Care Unit of the Legacy Oaks Assisted Living Facility. Nana, being the cheeky girl that she has always been, quickly won the hearts of the staff and residents at Legacy Oaks.
Nana was preceded in death by her parents and her two brothers. She is survived by her two sons, Tom Glass, and wife Gail, of Austin, Texas, and Jerry Glass, and wife Renee, of Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
She has four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and many relatives, some of whom reside in and around Muleshoe, Texas.