Born in Norristown, Pa., Simmons was raised on his grandparents’ dairy farm after his mother?EUR??,,????'???s death. A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst inspired him to pursue landscape architecture. He became a student of Frank Lloyd Wright at the architect?EUR??,,????'???s Taliesin estate in Spring Green, Wis., and worked with the Wisconsin Park Planning Commission.

In the late 1930s he lived in New Mexico and was a supervisor with the Civilian Conservation Corps, Roosevelt?EUR??,,????'???s New Deal program that employed millions of men during the Depression.

Simmons worked for the federal government in Washington, D.C., as a city planner, a position that integrated into the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In 1970 he relocated to San Antonio’s HUD office.

After ?EUR??,,????'??retiring,?EUR??,,????'?? Simmons did income tax counseling and also volunteered in that capacity with the AARP.

Simmon?EUR??,,????'???s wife, Jane Reineking, passed away in 1995. He is survived by daughters Barbara, Marilyn, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.