Timmer, Mrs. George (Clarraine) - 1919-1991

TIMMER, VANDERSCHAAF, TESLAA

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Date: 7/12/2013 at 12:14:54

Rock Valley Bee, September 11, 1991

Clarraine Timmer, 71, of Rock Valley, died Sunday, September 1, 1991 at a Sioux City hospital.

Services were held at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday at Pioneer United Methodist Church of Rock Valley, with the Rev. Ron Johnson officiating. Burial was in Valley View Cemetery.

Mrs. Timmer, the former Clarraine Vander Schaaf, was born Nov. 6. 1919 at Hull, Iowa, the daughter of James & Dora (Te Slaa) Vander Schaaf. She graduated from Hull High School and earned her bachelor's degree in education from Northwestern College at Orange City. She married George Timmer, June 7, 1947, at Sioux City. They lived in Rock Valley, and she taught in country schools, than at Rock Valley Public School until her retirement in 1984.

She was a member of Pioneer United Methodist Church and the UMW. She was a member of the ISEA and the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary.

Survivors include her husband; a son and his wife, Steven & Lynn Timmer of Edina, MN; a daughter and her husband, Gayle & Alan Podowski of Dyer, Ind.; a brother, Gerrit J. "Son" Vander Schaaf, of Hull; and three grandchildren, Andrew & Phillip Timmer and Lauren Podowski.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Douwie Vander Schaaf.

Porter Funeral Home of Rock Valley was in charge of arrangements.