Herman & Arminda Bowen Timmerman

TIMMERMAN BOWEN KRUEGER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/10/2010 at 23:32:15

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Herman and Arminda (Bowen) Timmerman
By Muriel C Winterringer Meyer

Herman Federick Timmerman was born May 14, 1876, at Monona, Iowa, the first child born to Amelia Krueger and Frederick Timmerman. He, being the oldest of eight children, was the one responsible for the family when his father died April 7, 1896. He came first to Oto, in Woodbury County, then started a store in Archer, O’Brien County, Iowa. It was there he married Arminda Pearl Bowen on June 10, 1908. Minda was born March 7, 1887, in Iowa. They also had a store in LeMars before returning to Oto, in 1912. They rented an eighty acre farm in Section 3 of Oto Township, which was owned by William and Frank Krueger, his uncles. Later they owned their own farm.

Their son, Dale Maurice Timmerman, was born October 3, 1991, at Oto. He attended school in Oto, graduating form high school there. Soon afterwards he entered the Army and while in North Africa was captured and spent much time in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.

After the war, Dale returned to Oto and was married on July 15, 1946, at Oto. His bride was Annie ‘Nan’ Latson McNamara, whom he had met when stationed in Scotland. She was from Glasgow, Scotland. Her parents were Michael McNamara and Mary Murphy.

They farmed at Oto. They were the parents of two children: Sharon Rae and Richard Scott. Sharon married William James Henning on June 12, 1971, at Oto. They have children and live in Omaha, Nebraska. Scott was married to Linda Funkhouser on August 28, 1971, at Whiting, Iowa. They have children and are divorced.

Herman and Minda celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1958 with an openhouse hosted by their son and daughter-in-law.

Herman died May 2, 1965, in a hospital in Battle Creek, Ida County, Iowa. His buried was in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa. Minda passed away September 8, 1968, she is buried beside Herman in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Dale and Nan spent this past summer visiting relatives in Scotland. They spend their winters in warmer places now.