by Joe Gould and Corky Siemaszko
Weeping silently, the widow of Firefighter Martin Simmons Monday clung to the son he gave up his life to save from the frigid waters of Lake Tahoe.
As Judi Simmons hugged their 10-year-old son Kevin, her brother-in-law read the words she wrote for the funeral at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Nesconset, L.I. - but didn't have the strength to deliver herself.
"I don't know what I'm going to do without you, but I promise to always take good care of our boys," William King read. "I will hold you in my heart and meet you in my dreams."
Kevin sat solemnly through the funeral Mass beside his brothers Joseph, 13, and Ryan, 8, as his dad's captain from Ladder 111 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Steven Berube, gave the eulogy.
The Simmons family was boating in Nevada last week when Kevin dived into the lake for a swim and developed leg cramps. Simmons, 41, went in to rescue his boy, who was eventually pulled out of the water by King. Simmons' lifeless body was found later.
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