SIMCICH, Frances Anne Peterson - June 24, 1925 - May 24, 2005 Frances Anne Peterson Simcich passed away May 24, 2005, one month before her eightieth birthday, at Kaiser Hospital, Santa Rosa, CA, from complications arising from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The second of three children born to Harold and Edna Peterson, she was born in Dalhousie, India, where she lived until she was eight. The family then moved back to the United States and settle in Waukegan, IL. She graduated from Westtown School in 1943 and then attended Antioch College, where she met her husband-to-be, Walter Simcich. The Quaker girl of good family and the radical son of immigrant steelworkers then began their life of union-organizing, which took them from the meat-packing plants of the Midwest through the farms of California to the logging mills and camps of the Pacific Northwest. After raising her three children, Frances started her second career as a children's librarian, working in Vancouver, WA, Yellow Springs, OH and the Placer County library in Auburn, CA. After Walter's death in 1976, she started a second, calmer life, becoming more involved in her passion for quilting and sewing, swimming in the American River and enjoying "her mountains". She is survived by her children, Tina Simcich of Olympia, WA, Michael Simcich of El Cerrito, CA, Peter Simcich of El Sobrante, CA, her brothers, William Peterson of Ann Arbor, MI, Richard Peterson of Nashville, TN and her two beloved grandchildren Danica and Anya Johnson of Olympia, WA.