Margaret D. Dannettel Timmerman, 1828-1907

TIMMERMAN, DANNETTEL

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 11/18/2013 at 12:38:50

LOVE'S TRIBUTE TO MRS. TIMMERMAN.

Thursday afternoon April 18th our friend and neighbor, Mrs. Timmerman entered into Paradise, there to rest in peace until the morning of a joyful resurrection.

Her maiden name was Margaret Dorothy Dannettel and she was born in 1828 in a small town in the kingdom of Hanover Germany. She came to America in infancy with a family of ten brothers and sisters, none of whom are living. They settled in Baltimore, Md. There at the age of nineteen our friend was married to H.L. Timmerman, a man of probity and sterling worth. In Baltimore five of their eight children were born and there two are buried. Moving to Mt. Pleasant in 1857, here three more children came to claim a mother's love and care. Three of these eight children, Henry and Sophie of Mt. Pleasant and Albert of Seattle, are left to know the loss of a mother's love, though the memory must still abide.

In early years Mrs. Timmerman was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church, but during the years of her life in Mt. Pleasant she has been a faithful communicant of St. Michael's Episcopal church, always devoted to the interest of the church and accepting her teaching, showing by her daily walk and conversation that her life was "hid with Christ in God."

The measure of our days lies not in months or years. "The glory of our life below comes not from what we do or what we know, but dwells forever more in what we are."

In every strong personality there are certain dominant traits of character which stand prominently forth, showing what manner of person one really is.

Mrs. Timmerman's individuality was strongly marked. She possessed in an eminent degree a keen sense of the claims of motherhood. Left in middle life by the death of her husband with the care of five children, the eldest but sixteen years of age though her heart may have faltered, her heroic spirit never wavered in devotion to their interests or in the resolve to train them in the path of duty and uprightness. Youthfulness to duty whether in the household, the church or community was another characteristic of our friend. "The duty that lies nearest" was but to be divined to become binding upon her. These positive qualities of mind and heart are a rich legacy to her children and the memory of her heroism in times of trial, and her faithfulness to duty will be an inspiration to bear patiently and hopefully the lonely days to come.

One test of character is the power to make friends and to hold them. This faculty was Mrs. Timmerman's. Her children's intense devotion, their reverence, their respect for her opinion show her power to bind with love's chains those who knew her best; while the large company of friends at her funeral and the wealth of blossoms laid upon her casket attested to this wonderful gift of winning and keeping the love of neighbors.

Laid beside the loved ones gone before in the faith of the Holy Catholic church and in the blessed home of the coming Lord, our friend "rests from her labors but her works do follow her." S.E.A.

["Mt. Pleasant Daily", April 23, 1907, Page 4]