Dr. Simon Joseph Kovacs Simon Joseph Kovacs, age 95, died on February 1, 2024, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Simon was born in Répceszemere, a small village in Hungary, on March 9, 1928, the first of seven sons born to Joseph and Ilona (née Simon) Kovács. His first name lovingly preserved his mother’s maiden name. He went to high school in Sopron, and to college in Szeged and Budapest, seemingly destined to follow local tradition of the eldest son becoming a Jesuit priest. But then the life-changing upheavals started. During WWII, Jewish classmates and friends were removed from his high school,...