Woman, 63, 設立する dead in her garage on Christmas Day and 当局 believe she passed away more than a YEAR ago

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当局 believe a 63-year-old woman passed away more than a year before her 団体／死体 was 設立する at her Makanda, Illinois home where she lived alone.

The 団体／死体 of Sunantha Simmons was discovered Christmas Day when 親族s from Japan （機の）カム to visit her.?

The 親族s hadn't heard from Simmons in over a year and were 荒廃させるd to learn she had died, with no one の近くに enough to discover she passed.

News of Simmons' death 激しく揺するd her 居住させるd 近隣 on Whippoorwill 小道／航路, where it was 噂するd she may have moved 支援する to her native Thailand.?

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No one noticed: 63-year-old Sunantha Simmons was 設立する dead in her Makanda, Illinois home on Christmas Day by family members visiting from Japan. Authoritites believe died more than a year before her 団体／死体 was discovered?

Left behind: A 見解（をとる） of the house this week shows the lawn over grown with 少しのd and unopened 一括s stacked at the 前線 door. Many neighbors believed she had moved 支援する to her native Thailand?

However, they also knew that Simmons was troubled, and talked about her 存在 institutionalized several times over the years for mental illness.?

当局 say they were called to the woman's house several times in the past for 医療の 問題／発行するs, but hadn't 答える／応じるd to her home in more than a year.?

Simmons' step-d aughter who lives in Japan is 恐らく the person who 設立する the 団体／死体 in the woman's garage. The 郡 検死官 決定するd that Simmons died of natural 原因（となる）s.

On Monday, 地元の news 駅／配置するs photographed Simmons house with an overgrown lawn and boxes of fish oil ビタミンs, baby 砕く and vegetable oil unopened on her 前線 step?

Neighbor Jim Crane told The Southern Illinoisan that he いつかs mowed Simmons' lawn to keep it from sticking out in the 近隣.?

He said it was 平易な to overlook the overgrown home because Simmons lived as a recluse, staying in her home with the lights out, ordering food my mail and throwing her trash in the backyard. ?

Shocked: Neighbor Shannon Butler says she would have checked in on Simmons, but she wasn't の近くに to the woman

The volunteer firefighter was on good 条件 with Simmons, 述べるing her as a nice lady who became depressed after the death of her husband John in 2005.?

'That's what led to her downfall,' Crane said. ?

The couple 恐らく met during the Vietnam War, when John was 駅／配置するd in southeast Asia. It's also been 報告（する）／憶測d that Simmons taught English as a second language at a university in Thailand.?

He says she was so torn up about his death that she visited him up to three times a week at 塚 City 国家の 共同墓地, a 50 mile 運動 away.?

And the last time he talked to her, Crane said she 表明するd wanting to die so that she could join her husband.?

Neighbor Diana Kington, was friends with Simmons when she first moved into the 近隣, but says they lost touch when Simmons started 取引，協定ing with mental health 問題／発行するs.

'Lots of people were trying to 人物／姿／数字 out what happened with her,' Kington to ld WSIL. 'Honestly, she had money, she was very 有望な, I thought she was institutionalized or she had decided to leave the area and just abandoned the house.'

Another neighbor, Shannon Butler, told KFVS she would have checked in on Simmons had the two been の近くに. ?

Simmons was buried Tuesday in a 陰謀（を企てる） next to her husband at 開始する City.

Father （頭が）ひょいと動く Flannery, who met Simmons at Saint Francis Xavier Church, said the funeral home didn't 推定する／予想する a large 人出／投票者数 for the service, but that 11 people showed up.?

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