Edgar W. Timm 1915 - 1942

TIMM, WEISS, WALDRON

Posted By: Phyllis Hazen (email)
Date: 10/9/2019 at 08:10:50

The Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Thursday, 26 March 1942, page 2

Edgar Timm, 26, dies Suddenly; Rites Uncertain

EDGAR W. TIMM

Edgar W. Timm, 26, one of Muscatine’s most distinguished scholars, died unexpectedly at 8 a.m. today in the college hospital at Iowa State College, Ames, following a cerebral hemorrhage. The youth suffered a sudden attack of illness Wednesday evening and was rushed to the college hospital where an iron lung was employed in a futile effort to save his life.
Timm received his grade school education in the Zion Lutheran school here and then went on to Muscatine high school, serving as salutatorian for the class of 1932. He continued his education at Iowa State college and received his bachelor’s degree there in 1936.
As a result of his outstanding work as a student at Ames he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship and attended Trinity college at Oxford university in England for three years. He was awarded a master’s degree on completion of his studies at Oxford.
Timm was looking forward to obtaining his Ph. D. degree at Iowa state college in June. He was associated with the genetics department at the college when stricken with his fatal illness. He was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho social fraternity at the college and also of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, and several other honorary fraternities.
The son of C. M. and Barbara Weiss Timm, he was born July 11, 1915, on a farm near Muscatine. He married Helen Trimble Waldron in Des Moines on Sept. 28, 1940. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran church of Muscatine.
Surviving are his wife, his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Timm, 111 West Sixth street, Muscatine, and two brothers, Harold C. Timm and Albert C. Timm, also of Muscatine. He was preceded in death by his mother and a sister.
Members of the family were still in Ames late this morning and funeral arrangements were indefinite. It is expected that the body will be brought back to Muscatine for services and burial.
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