Tinnermeier, Alvin A. 1910-2006

TINNERMEIER, REMBERT, ENGLE, HINES, RUMBAUGH, MARTINSDALE, HOTCHKISS

Posted By: volunteer (email)
Date: 7/31/2006 at 19:41:32

BAXTER -- Alvin A. Tinnermeier, 95, of Baxter died Friday, June 30, 2006, at the Baxter Healthcare Center in Baxter.

A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Bethany United Church of Christ in rural Baxter. Burial will be in Bethany Cemetery. Boyd-Davis Funeral Home in Baxter is handling arrangements.

Friends may call from 9:30 a.m. until service time on Wednesday at the church. A memorial fund is being established.

The son of August and Marie (Rembert) Tinnermeier, he was born Dec. 10, 1910, in Newton. He grew up in rural Baxter and attended country school. On March 4, 1936, he married Geneva Engle in Omaha, Neb. The couple made their home on a farm southeast of Baxter, where they farmed until his retirement in the late 1950s. After retiring, he assisted at the Boyd - Nikkel Funeral Home & Furniture Store in Baxter for many years. He also worked at various carpentry jobs throughout Jasper County. His wife died Dec. 12, 1986, and he moved to the Baxter Healthcare Center in December 2004.

Survivors include his sister, Sylvia Hines of Des Moines; a sister-in-law, Emma Rumbaugh of Portland, Ore.; several nieces and nephews and many other distant relatives.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; an infant son; two sisters, Irma Martinsdale and Olga Hotchkiss.

The Newton (IA) Daily News, July 3, 2006