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Kim Simpson

September 14, 1936 - July 16, 2021

The administrator of this page is Christian Simpson

Adored Mother of Faith, Clare, & Christian, beloved Grandmother of Dominic, Sasha, & Alfie, and accomplished Montessorian and Therapist who helped so many. Forever in our hearts.

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  • 2021-08-03 13:12:18 View / Comment (0)
    Ceinwen Nokes

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    When I think of Aunty Kim it is with love and affection. KIM was a deep thinker, generous in spirit and always interested. KIM was kind, loving and principled, favouring natural remedies and embracing vegetarianism. KIM was energetic and positive, setting up and running a Montessori nursery in the lovely house she made with Barrie. KIM ... I enjoyed being shown around the nursery with enthusiasm, the beautiful stained glass and your gorgeous garden. Many rich memories live on for which I thank you, dear Aunty. Your loving Niece, Ceinwen ❤

  • 2021-08-02 17:42:38 View / Comment (0)
    Michelle Haste

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    This is such a lovely picture of Kim and captures her very essence. She inspired me each day when I brought my daughter to her lovely nursery, and I am blessed to say we were firm friends from that moment on. She touched the lives of all around her, and will be sorely missed. Rest in perfect peace dear lady with your beloved Barrie, and know that you gave a generation of little ones and their families direction and inspiration - much love to her family and strength to cope with their loss xx.

  • 2021-08-01 20:25:08 View / Comment (0)
    Nicky Johnston

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    When I first decided to become a Montessori Directress, my cousin who had been a Montessori teacher told me that if I wanted to have an idea of what the perfect Montessori nursery looked like then I should go and visit the Studio Montessori and meet Kim, so I did. Kim very soon took me on as one of her students and within weeks of joining her nursery, I was delighted when she quickly offered me a job and as a result I stayed with Kim until she made the sad decision to close the Studio. While Kim was my boss, it is as my mentor that I will remember her with the most fondness and to which I hold her in the highest regard. She was a remarkable lady who created a very warm and special environment for young children and for her staff and was an integral part of the Montessori community. I could not have asked for a better place or a better teacher to impart their knowledge and guide me, as I embarked on this new career path. Kim, I will miss you very much and the chats we used to have, but I will continue to think of you often and to incorporate all that you taught me into my daily teaching practice. To Faith, Clare and Christian and all of Kim's family - I extend my heartfelt condolences to you all. With love - Nicky x

  • 2021-07-31 22:25:25 View / Comment (0)
    Ceinwen Nokes

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    To my sisters family with love from Babs. Thank you for this opportunity to remember Kim in a few words...... My thoughts are positive about her passing, and in particular the years she has spent alone. After sixty years of a happy and successful life together with her loving husband Barrie, she put everything of the past in its place and carried on. Almost impossible to perceive; she embraced a life shattering illness at the same time. She looked it in the face and tried to put that in its place as well. I am so.proud of my sister for her courage, her fortitude, and her endless search for balance between lifes' matter and physicality, and the Spirit. So she slipped peacefully away. Her path known only to her spiritual self and those who loved her the most. "My amazing sister ' shall we meet on that beautiful shore, ' "To my sisters family with love from Babs.

  • 2021-07-30 11:36:27 View / Comment (0)
    Amelia Dearn

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    I always looked forward to going to “the big house” when I came to your Montessori Kim, and I have a lovely memory of a very big tree in the garden and I was giving this tree a cuddle. You opened up a beautiful world to us young ones who were privileged to have gone to your school. Your memory lives on in all of our little lives you touched. Love, Amelia Dearn

  • 2021-07-30 11:21:16 View / Comment (0)

    Henrietta Meggison (Dearn)

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    I’ll always remember your kindness, your wisdom and the welcoming nature of the environment you created for everyone big and small. You inspired me to adopt a Montessori approach in raising my children, and for that I will be forever grateful. Until we meet again. Hettie X

  • 2021-07-22 01:02:19 View / Comment (0)
    Christian Simpson

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    One thing Mum often reminded me through life when I’d have an ache or a pain was that, “you… are not your body”. And her own wise words perhaps apply equally to herself now. “She… is not her body”. That was the vessel that held her life force. But it isn’t really Kim. Over the past few weeks and thanks to modern technology in these complex times of travel quarantines and Covid risks it seems almost fitting that - whilst I wasn’t able to be there in person or “in body” - we both firmly believed we were together and present in spirit. We shared “face to face” conversations about spirituality, meditation, and other realms. I know Mum held nervous intrigue in what comes after this life, and with that secret now revealed to her, she is once again even wiser than any of us! I feel blessed that we had the chance to say everything we would have wanted to say. More than once in fact, as she continued to defy doctors’ prognoses! And that was very much my mum too - not just wise, but strong even at the weakest times. When the doctors gave her "days", she gave us weeks. As we each remember and carry forward our own words of wisdom and strength that Kim shared with us, and as we go forward and share them with others, so Kim’s life force lives on in another way; through us all - through her words, her children, her family, and her dearest friends. And to live on, is not to die... Love you mum. See you next time. X

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    • Christian Simpson 2021-07-22 01:02:19 wrote: One thing Mum often reminded me through life when I’d have an ache or a pain was that, “you… are not your body”. And her own wise words perhaps apply equally to herself now. “She… is not her body”. That was the vessel that held her life force. But it isn’t really Kim. Over the past few weeks and thanks to modern technology in these complex times of travel quarantines and Covid risks it seems almost fitting that - whilst I wasn’t able to be there in person or “in body” - we both firmly believed we were together and present in spirit. We shared “face to face” conversations about spirituality, meditation, and other realms. I know Mum held nervous intrigue in what comes after this life, and with that secret now revealed to her, she is once again even wiser than any of us! I feel blessed that we had the chance to say everything we would have wanted to say. More than once in fact, as she continued to defy doctors’ prognoses! And that was very much my mum too - not just wise, but strong even at the weakest times. When the doctors gave her "days", she gave us weeks. As we each remember and carry forward our own words of wisdom and strength that Kim shared with us, and as we go forward and share them with others, so Kim’s life force lives on in another way; through us all - through her words, her children, her family, and her dearest friends. And to live on, is not to die... Love you mum. See you next time. X

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