Age 77, Cache - Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm on Saturday, October 3 at the Becker Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Terry Oates of Lighthouse Church of God and Rev. Don Barnes of First Assembly of God officiating. She went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Tuesday. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens Field of Honor under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. Katie Colleen Bishop Simmons was born on March 18, 1932 to Theodore and Beulah Blackburn Bishop at their rural farm home south of Wilson, Oklahoma. She moved with her parents and two brothers to the present home place east of Cache on December 7, 1941. She attended Black Jack School at Wilson, then Cache Public Schools. After graduating from Cache High School on June 4, 1949 she attended Oklahoma College for Women at Chickasha, Oklahoma. After which she attended Dalton Business College at Lawton, Oklahoma. She was a secretary and bookkeeper for Lawton Chamber of Commerce (1950-51), a secretary for Seitz Insurance adjusters and a bookkeeper for Dixie Department Store in Lawton. She was a foster parent for the State of Oklahoma from 1967-1976. She was also a smile aid assistant for the Lawton Public Schools, 1989-1991 and a substitute teacher for the Cache Public Schools, 1991-2002 and a professional seamstress. She was awarded Merit Mother of the Year for the State of Oklahoma in 1986. Colleen and Lawrence E. Simmons were married on September 22, 1951 in Duncan, Oklahoma. Lawrence preceded her in death on September 6, 2004. To the couple four children were born. They and their spouses are: Rickey and Jo Lynn Simmons, Wasilla, Alaska; Rhonda and Rickey Mahaffey, Lawton, OK; Susan and Paul Hill, Cache, OK; and Timothy Todd and Kathleen Simmons, San Diego, CA. She also helped raise many other children and the Simmons' home was safe haven for many. She is also survived by six grandchildren, Brian Griffitts, Lawton, OK; Christopher Chad Pollock and wife Leigh Ann of Arlington, TX; Tathena Williams and husband Stephen of Southaven, MS; and Eleanor Halm Simmons, San Diego, CA; Emily Maker, Austin TX and Dan Hill, Colorado Springs CO. Five great-grandchildren: Taylor and Mickayla Griffitts, Bedford, TX; Logan Pollock, Arlington, TX; Allison Maker, Austin, TX, and Robert Dorrell, Cache, OK. She is survived by one brother, Thurman Bishop and wife Roberta of Lawton, OK, three sister-in-laws, Ermine Bishop, Lawton, OK; Lela Bilbrey and Geneva Simmons, Cache, OK; many nieces and nephews, and a host of friends and family. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and one brother, Benny Doyle Bishop. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Southwest Oklahoma, P.O. Box 2074, Lawton OK 73502.