Herman’s son, John “Yon” Smits beings running Yon’s Tavern at the address of 925 Main Street, which has now been home to four generations of tavern owners.

Yon’s four daughters leased out the bar a few times. Fred Lewis’, Ken & El’s, and Vi’s Villa were the names that of the bar during this leasing era, but none of them stuck around for long. But in February 1961, Mildred, one of the 4 daughters of Yon, and her husband Ed Simonet bought the other 3 sisters out of the business and opened up the doors officially as Simonet’s Bar. Mildred and Ed have two sons, Jack and Tom, who would both begin working for the family business almost immediately. With the help of Proctor & Gamble and

Jack and Tom, along with their wives Elaine and Ann, bought out Mildred and Ed in 1977 to become the third generation to run the bar and keep it in the family.

In 1996, while Jack was recovering from kidney transplant surgery, Tom’s son Mark moved home from college and began helping around the bar. Unfortunately, during recovery, Jack passed away in February of 1998. Now with Mark’s help, in 1999 Tom would decide to make a bigger expansion of the bar in place of the parking lot that Ed had bought back in 1976. A brand new 3,000 square foot bar room would bring capacity to over 100 people and would enable the old bar room to be used as a party room and still is to this day.

Brian and Mark bought the bar from Tom and Ann.