Schimming, Emil 1878-1956

SCHIMMING, KLUMB, GRIESE

Posted By: Janet Brown - volunteer (email)
Date: 8/5/2013 at 15:19:28

From the Thursday, May 3, 1956 Hawarden Independent:

Emil Schimming Dies at Age 77

Funeral services were conducted last Saturday afternoon at Trinity Lutheran Church by Rev. O. F. Pittack for Emil Schimming, 77, a lifelong resident of this community, who died of a heart attack last Wednesday. Interment was made in Grace Hill Cemetery with the Barnard Funeral home in charge.

Emil Gustav Bernhard Schimming, son of Frederick Schimming and his wife, Augusta, nee Griese, was born in Chicago on October 22, 1878. When he was but. six weeks of age, his parents moved to Sioux county and settled on a farm some five miles east of the present city of Hawarden where he spent all the days of his childhood and youth.

On March 2, 1905, he married Elizabeth Klumb in the home of the bride's parents in Union county, South Dakota, with the Rev. Hugo Grimm, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Ireton, performing the ceremony.

During the next 13 years he lived on a farm seven miles northeast of Hawarden and in 1918 he moved into a new home he built at 1413 Avenue H in this city and resided there until 1936 when he returned to his farm for another 13 years. In the spring of 1948 he retired from active farming and moved into his present home at 919 15th Street. He and his wife held open house in observance of their golden wedding anniversary in March of last year.

About the middle of January of this year, he was stricken with influenza which weakened, his already weakening heart and kept him confined to his home. During his last week, however, his physical condition had apparently improved, since he was no longer completely confined to his bed. Shortly, before his attack he had been up and around and had eaten an afternoon snack.

Preceding him in death were his parents, two brothers, Fred and Charley; one son, Charley, at the age of three days, and another son, twin to one living, at birth.

Those surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; one son, Otto, of Hawarden; one brother, Ben of California; one sister, Bertha Kleinhans of Alcester.