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Danielle Marie Simacek-Choi

  • Friday, April 3, 1970 - Friday, October 17, 2025

Visitation

  • Monday, October 27, 2025
  • 10:00-11:00 AM
  • Rausch Funeral Home-Owings
  • 8325 Mt. Harmony Lane Owings, MD 20736

Services

  • Monday, October 27, 2025
  • 11:00 AM
  • Rausch Funeral Home-Owings
  • 8325 Mt. Harmony Lane Owings, MD 20736

Danielle Marie Simacek-Choi, 55, of Chesapeake Beach passed away October 17, 2025. She was born April 3, 1970 in Wilmington, DE to Paul and Rose Marie (Irwin) Simacek. Danielle grew up in Wilmington where she attended Catholic Schools and graduated from Padua Academy. She went to attend the Boston School of Pharmacy where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in pharmaceuticals. She started her career in the medical field at Massachusetts General Hospital before moving to Illinois with her first husband Frank Choi and continued working in the medical field. Danielle later moved to Maryland, working at Advanced Radiology before becoming a Nuclear Medicine Technician at Luminus Health in Annapolis. She married Charles Simacek on October 4, 2014 and they made their home in Chesapeake Beach. Danielle loved Irish culture, especially the bagpipe, and highland dancing. She also loved dressing up for the holidays and traveling to Ocean City and the Pocono mountains. She enjoyed bowling and being at the beach and on the water. Danielle loved cooking spicy food, especially Thai and Chinese dishes and her pets Tank, Hunter, BamBam, and MAGA. She will be remembered as someone who could light up any room she entered.

Danielle is survived by her loving husband Charles Richard Simacek, her father Paul Simacek, sister Paulette Shelton and her best friend Cynthia Hurts. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Frank and her mother Rose Simacek.

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Anne Diehl

October 27 – Obituary: Danielle Marie Simacek-Choi

Rest in Peace, Danielle. Your time here was cut short for some reason we will never understand. I will miss you and the way you lit up a room when you entered. You always had a way of making me laugh. I will always remember you. 

Mary Simacek Filley

October 22 – Obituary: Danielle Marie Simacek-Choi

I’m Danielle’s older cousin in the Simacek family, her dad being my only uncle. I knew her as Dani & babysat her when her parents & mine would go out after her birth, when my dad was stationed in Edgewood, MD. 
It was wonderful to get that side of the family back several years ago through Facebook, & I loved that Dani had married her soulmate Charlie. 
All of my heart mourns for Charlie’s & Uncle Paul’s deep heartache, & I grieve with the many that this world has had one of its brightest & most beautiful lights extinguished. But God knows, & will sustain us. I love you, Uncle Paul & Charlie, & wish I could be there & hug your necks…

Lolita Le Bon

October 21 – Obituary: Danielle Marie Simacek-Choi

Through pictures I saw beautiful red haired women ( they are very rare and touched by the sunlight ) Her smile and undivided attention to her husband Charlie, my first cousin. My deepest condolences to the Simacek ~ Choi family. 
We love you Charlie.  Worth love Mark and Barbe Le Bon. 

Edward Horwitz

October 21 – Obituary: Danielle Marie Simacek-Choi

 

Peggy Wirth

October 21 – Obituary: Danielle Marie Simacek-Choi

Danielle  was always smiling every time I saw her.  She had a love for family, friends and life in general.   My thoughts and prayers are with Charlie, her Dad and her pets. She will be missed.

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