Anne - Marie Simeon

As a family, we are deeply saddened at the loss of our dearly beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and niece. Anne-Marie passed from our lives on Friday, October 8, 2021. She was born on January 16, 1976, to Jim and Shirley Knopp in Billings, Montana. On her father's side she was of German descent, and on her mother's side Spanish and Mexican. Her great grandpa came from Spain as a land grant Spaniard and settled in what is today, New Mexico. Anne-Marie was very proud of her Spanish-Mexican heritage. She attended Billings Public Schools and graduated from Billings Senior High School in 1994 with honors. She went on to attend the University of Chicago earning her bachelor's degree, after which she attended University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and De Paul University in Chicago where she earned her jurisprudence doctorate degree in 2002. She was accepyed to Illinois Bar Association shorty after. That summer she met Robert Simeon, the love of her life, whom she married next year on March 23, 2003, in Slavonski Brod, Croatia where Robert was from. They spent several years in Chicago before coming back to Billings when Anne-Marie became pregnant, and her dad was diagnosed with cancer. She got to spend four years with her dad before he passed in 2010. From her marriage with Robert, two children were born: daughter Maya born in 2007 and son Mile in 2010. Anne-Marie was a caring and compassionate person who deeply loved her children and became an attorney with the goal of helping troubled families and children suffering from neglect and abuse, always going the extra mile to assure her clients' well-being. With that goal in mind, she joined the Montana State Public Defenders office, and after, went on doing the same work as a contract attorney for the State of Montana. She worked hard to the end even while she was sick with metastatic breast cancer which eventually took her from us but joined her with her dad in heaven. You will always be in our hearts Anne-Marie. Vaya con Dios.