This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ZIMMERMANN, NEESE, JOHNSON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2FC.2ACI/1515 Message Board Post: Sheboygan (Wis) Press, Tues, Dec 31, 1946, p10 Rites Planned For Theodore Zimmermann Theodore H. Zimmermann, 52, of 925 Union avenue, died at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Sheboygan Memorial hospital following a lingering illness. The son of Traugott and Wilhelmina Zimmermann, the deceased was born in Sheboygan on Feb. 19, 1894. He attended Bethlehem Lutheran parochial school and was confirmed at the Bethlehem Lutheran church in 1908. He was employed as a mechanic at the R. H. Thieman company for 25 years, but retired because of ill health last August. His marriage to Miss Hilde Neese was performed Dec. 6, 1919, at the Immanuel Lutheran church. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Zimmermann served overseas with Company F, 311th Supply train of the 86th division, and during World War II he was a member of the army aviation cadet committee and the Sixth Service command council of Sheboygan. He was a member of Wolf-Olson post No. 1230, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of Our Saviors' Lutheran church. Survivors include his widow; two sons, Leroy, Madison, and Pvt. Theodore Zimmermann, Jr., with the U.S. army in California; one daughter, Mildred, at home; his mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Zimmermann, two brothers, Arthur and Martin, and a sister, Mrs. Frank Johnson, all of Sheboygan. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Steffen Funeral chapels. The Rev. Walter Laesch, pastor of Our Saviors' Lutheran church, will officiate, and interment will be made in Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral chapel from 7 o'clock this evening until the time of the services. Officers of the Wolf-Olson post will hold military rites at the funeral chapel at 8 p.m. Wednesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Funeral - Sheboygan (Wis) Press, Fri, Jan 3, 1947, p8 Rites Are Held For Theodore Zimmermann Last rites for Theodore H. Zimmermann, 925 Union avenue, who died Monday at the Memorial hospital, were held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Steffen Funeral chapel. The Rev. Walter Laesch of Our Saviors' Lutheran church officiated and burial was made in the Lutheran cemetery. During the services Mrs. Oscar Langner and Mrs. Harvey Halverson sang "Rock of Ages" and "Be Still My Soul" accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Fred Kallien. Pallbearers were: Herman Maas, Henry Brumschmid, Victor Loebel, Arthur Kolberg, Lester Theune and Herman Stanisch. Military services were held Wednesday evening by Wolf-Olson Post No. 1230, V.F.W. with Commander A. M. Konrad, Sr., Vice Commander Arthur Erbstoesser, Chaplain Ed. Burnette and Bugler Kenneth Froh taking part. Daughters of the Unit sang "Soldier Boy." Military rites were conducted at the grave with A. M. Konrad in charge. Firing squad members were Ed. Burnette, Gerald Siefert, C. Block, E. Mahnke; color bearers were C. Benke and Marvin Fritsch; bugler was Kenneth Froh. Floral tributes were received from the Bethlehem Lutheran Ladies league, R. H. Thieman Co., Jung Shoe Co., Wolf-Olson Post No. 1230 V.F.W., Mildred's Club, V.F.W. Auxiliary and Olson Floral Shop. Among those from away who attended the rites were Herman Neese and son, Herman, Jr., of Batavia; Mrs. Lester Burkhardt and daughter, Barbara of Manitowoc, and numerous others from this vicinity.