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(Originally posted by Sara Dixon Gore, to Facebook, September 20, 2016)
Barbara Nelson-Simpson , (Barbara Blethen) Class of 1968. Barbara passed away on August 30, 2016 after a four-year valiant and courageous battle with a rare form of uterine cancer.
A Celebration of Life was held on September 24, 2016, in Bullhead City, AZ.
Barbara was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and friend to many. She will be greatly missed. God rest her soul.
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Tad Reynales
Wayne Kaplan
I did not realize, until just now, that Barbara Blethen and Barbara Nelson-Simpson were the same person. I had become Facebook friends with Barbara, via one of the Long Beach or Millikan related Facebook groups. I didn't really know her, but happily accepted her friend request. I just assumed she was one of our huge class that I simply never got a chance to know. But, I immensly enjoyed her Facebook posts, particularly when she and her husband took road trips. We seemed to do a lot of road trips to the same areas. As I followed her posts and learned of her battle with cancer, I was struck by how good-humored--even cheeky--she was about it. She was so upbeat, I never realized how ill she actually was, until one of her final posts, which sounded like a good-bye to friends.
It was a joy to share her excitement and wonder at places that I was also visiting, like The Road to the Sun, in Glacier National Park, or Elkhorn Slough, near Monetery, CA. I think she squeezed every last good drop out of life that she was able... and I am in awe of that.
Tad Reynales
The memory of a Mohave Community College employee will live on, through a scholarship set up in her name. Barbara Nelson-Simpson was the assistant to the college dean at MCC’s Bullhead City campus. She bravely fought the cancer that took her life in the summer of 2016.
https://www.mohave.edu/2018/01/30/new-scholarship-will-help-students-honor-mcc-employee-who-made-the-world-a-better-place/
Jan Wagner (Kirner)
Barbara was a dear friend. She was one of the sweetest women I've ever met. In addition, she was always fun with a warm heart!!! She is missed by all that have had the good fortune to have known her.