THIELMANN, Etola (GRIMM)

KIRKPATRICK, GRIMM, THIELMANN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 7/3/2015 at 08:31:11

Etola (Grimm) Thielmann

Etola (Grimm) Thielmann was born on November 30, 1914, on a farm near Grand River, Iowa, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Annabelle (Kirkpatrick) Grimm. She graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls and taught elementary school for 36 years at several different Iowa locations which included rural schools in Decatur and Clarke Counties (1934 – 1937 at the Foland School), Beaman, Des Moines and Newton. She retired from teaching in 1980.

She married Dr. C. J. Thielmann on February 2, 1946. Dr. Thielmann immigrated from Germany in 1923. Etola maintained active correspondence with her former pupils even after she succumbed to blindness. Eventually Etola moved to Nelson Manor Nursing Home in Newton, Iowa, where she died at the age of 99 years on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Burial was made at Newton Union Cemetery.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2015

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