Ina Louise Simon

Ina Simon, 94 of Port Arthur, Texas passed away on Tuesday, March 12, 2024.  She was born on September 8, 1929, to Andrew Simon and Lucille Cormier Simon. A devout Catholic she was a lifelong member of St. Charles Catholic Church.

She loved to crochet and would give everyone at Bonne Vie Nursing Home where she lived a set of crochet dish rags.  Ina was a loyal volunteer for Community Care-Prayer Outreach formally known as Golden Triangle Christian Counseling, where she would crochet hats for newborn babies at the local hospitals; also through this organization, she would make bed mats out of plastic bags for the homeless but her favorite volunteer work was bringing people closer to God on the prayer line where they would call in to be prayed for.

Ina is preceded in death by her parents and four of her six children, Donna Chesson Tully, Danny Chesson, Patty Lunsford, and Otis Hilbun.

Ina is survived by her son Mark Chesson of McAllen, Texas, and her daughter, Tammy Hampton Salenga and her husband, Richie of Nederland, Texas. Six grandchildren Kimm Tully Miller, Brandon Salenga, Brittney Womack and her husband Chad, Brent Salenga and his wife Abby, Miranda Chesson, Mark Chesson, II, Robert Chesson and six great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be on Saturday, March 16, 2024 from 12:30 PM till 1:30 PM at Clayton Thompson Funeral Home in Groves. Graveside service will be at 2:00 PM Saturday in Greenlawn Memorial Park.

Honoring Ina as pallbearers will be Brandon Salenga, Brent Salenga Sebastian Naranjo, Chad Womack, Mark Chesson II, Cliff Creighton and Richie Salenga.