[1] A few years after her birth, she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father began a successful jewelry business and her mother founded a local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) in 1895.
She also served as section secretary of the NCJW chapter her mother founded, which made her aware of new possibilities that were opening for Jewish women in public life.
[3] Simon was a founder of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1913 and served as its first president for the next six years.
In 1896, she married Abram Simon, who she met while he was a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College.
[2] Simon died at the Washington Hospital Center on March 3, 1961, several weeks after she fractured her hip.