This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Timmerman, Dockal, O'Quin, Oquin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9741 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 20 July 2006 Frank H. Timmerman, 82, died Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at his home near Rockdale after a brief illness. Funeral services were held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 15 at Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with Rev. Ralph McCullob, Chaplain of Odyssey Health Care officiating. Burial followed in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Rockdale. He was born Sept. 29, 1923 in the Gay Hill Community to John and Emily (Dockall) Timmerman. He married Jo O’Quin in Nov. 1973. Mr. Timmerman was a retired chemist for Diamond Shamrock. He also purchased Tim’s Hardware and Lumber in Thrall before he retired and tended to his cattle. He was a veteran of World War II and serving in the United States Navy. He was also member of the American Legion. Mr. Timmerman also went to school in Gay Hill, Blinn College and graduated from Rockdale High School in 1941 and Southwest Texas in 1946 with a bachelor of science degree. He was preceded in death by his brother, Walter “Buddy” Timmerman and his parents. Survivors include his wife Jo Timmerman of Rockdale; son, Ronald Springer and wife Marie of Jacksonville, FL; three daughters, Betty Mooring and husband Will of Spring, JoAnn West and husband Phillip of Pearlington, MS and Anita Jones and husband Lonnie of Thrall; brother, Baily Timmerman and wife Ester of Houston; sister, Minnie D. Chalfant and husband Ralph of Houston; 11 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers included Timmothy Timmerman, Terry Timmerman, Greg Williams, Don Hull, Calvin Jechou and Leroy Stephens. Memorials may be made to Odyssey Hospice, 2010 Southwest H.K. Dodgen Loop, Suite 201, Temple, Texas 76504.