Orval Delaine Timm 1939 - 2017
BASTMAN, TIMM, SHANAHAN
Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/27/2017 at 15:24:26
Mapleton Press
20 April 2017Orval Delaine Timm was born Jan. 3, 1939, to Kermit and Else Bastman Timm (so little they put him in a shoe box hanging above a cookstove) on a farm south of Ute. He passed away at the Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove on Thursday, March 9, at the age of 78.
Orval was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ute and received his education at the Ute schools up to the eighth grade, later receiving his GED. He started farming at an early age.
Orval married Kathryn (Kay) Shanahan on Jan. 4, 1958, and they were blessed with six children. They farmed for awhile and he worked for Guts Goslar as a farmhand. In July of 1963, he went to work at Iowa Beef Processors in the pits, later moving over to Denison Hides where he went from hourly to foreman to traveling superintendent from 1968 to 1978, overseeing the quality of the IBP Hides all over the United States and Canada.
In 1979, Orval took over the management of Denison Hides until it closed in 1990. He then transferred to Lexington, Neb., where he designed and helped build the new hide plant, becoming the manager until he retired in 2004 after 41 years of service.
Orval’s first love was working with his hands with wood. He remodeled three houses and made a lot of beautiful things out of wood. Orval was a man who loved his family and would help anyone that needed help, but never asked for any help for himself. He had a lot of health problems in his life and always came right back fighting, but this time he was just too tired.
Orval enjoyed his hunting trips to Texas with friend, Carl, playing Euchre with his family, smoking his pipe, hunting, and cutting wood with his boys.
Orval was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Mary; son, Donald; two brothers, Ronald and Gary Timm; one sister, Shirley Wardell; and Jerry Meeves.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Kathryn Timm of Smithland; three daughters, Gail Vogt and husband, Dean, and Bonita Jepsen and husband, John, all of Charter Oak, and Sherry Timm and husband, Dan Boyle, of Correctionville; one son, Craig Timm and wife, C.J., of Ute; six grandsons, Jesse Bohm, Luke Bohm and wife, Angel, Dustin Vogt and wife, Heather, Chris Jepsen and wife, Dori, and Vincent Jepsen, all of Charter Oak, and Dutch Timm and wife, Danielle, of Urbandale; one granddaughter, Katie Arp and husband, R.J., of Manning; two step-granddaughters, Trista and Megan Boyle; seven great-grandsons; six great-granddaughters; three step-great-granddaughters; one step-great-grandson; sisters-in-law; brothers-in-law; nieces; nephews; other relatives; and friends.
Funeral Services were held at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 18, at the Huebner Funeral Home in Denison.
Dennis Huebner officiated the service and graveside rites held at St. Clair Cemetery in Ute.
Music selections included recordings of “Knowing What I Know About Heaven” by Guy Penrod and Sarah Darling, “Go Rest High On the Mountain” by Vince Gill, “How Great Thou Art” by Tammy Wynette, and “Daddy’s Hands” by Holly Dunn.
Serving as honorary pallbearers were Myrna Harding, Chris Jepsen, John Jepsen, Dean Vogt, Dan Boyle, Katie Arp, and C.J. Timm.
Pallbearers were Vincent Jepsen, Kevin Bohm, Dutch Timm, Dustin Vogt, Jesse Bohm, and Luke Bohm.
The family invited everyone to the Ute Town & Country for fellowship and lunch provided by Staley’s.
The Huebner Funeral Home in Denison, Iowa was in charge of arrangements.
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