Walter TIMMERMANN

TIMMERMANN, ARNDT, SCHULTE, WIEDMANN, WOHLERS, MAXFIELD, HORN

Posted By: Larry Shoger (email)
Date: 10/12/2009 at 17:22:39

Eagle Grove - Walter Timmermann, 93, Eagle Grove, died Feb. 19, 1997, at his home.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Eagle Grove, with the Rev. Neil E. Hayen officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Eagle Grove. Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the William Funeral Home, Eagle Grove.

Survivors include his wife Martha, Eagle Grove; daughter Hilda Marie Schulte, Mountain Home, Ark; two grandchildren; one great granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his parents Johann and bertha (Wiedmann) Timmermann, daughter Irene Timmermann, brothers Willie, Ernest and Henry; and sisters Amanda Wohlers, Frieda Maxfield, and Emma Horn.

Walter J. Timmermann was born April 26, 1903 in Hamburg, Germany. He attended school in Hamburg, Germany, for eight years, and then attended a trade school for four years to become a cabinet maker. He came to the United States in 1923. He married Martha Arndt in Riceville in 1933. They moved to a farm near Elma, then to Osage where he worked on a Mitchell County road crew. In 1942, he worked for a ship yard in Sausalito, Calif., where he received a citation from the ship yard and federal government for an idea which saved the labor of three men hanging ventilation pipes during ship construction. In 1945, he worked as a ranch hand and a mechanic in California. They moved to Woolstock in 1949. He worked for Farmland Industries in Eagle Grove from 1951 to 1968, when he retired.

He was a member of the Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Eagle Grove, and the Boiler Makers Union.