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Mary Post (Keiser) Zimmerman

AGED HARVEL RESIDENT DIES
Herbert Harm Keiser Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the Christian church in Harvel for Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, 83, widow of the late William J. Zimmerman, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Jeisy of Morrisonville. The Rev. O. A. Hargin, of Springfield, former pastor of the Harvel Christian church, will officiate and burial will be made in Harvel cemetery.

Mrs. Zimmerman was a Harvel resident for 60 years, where she lived until several months ago when her health became bad and she moved to the home of her daughter. She married William J. Zimmerman in April, 1870 at Fosterburg and he preceded her in death, dying in June 1919. They were the parents of 12 children, nine of whom survive as follows: Mrs. Ida Hatcher, Eagle Rock, Calif.; Mrs. Mary McCarthy (sic), Fairbanks, Alaska; Mrs. Minnie Patterson, Anchorage, Alaska; Mrs. Bertha Jeisy, Farmersville; Mrs. Frances Bruning (sic), and Mrs. Anna Bruning (sic), both of Moweaqua; Arthur, Walter and William Zimmerman, all of Harvel.

Twenty-seven grandchildren also survive with 4 great-grandchildren. A son, Frank, died in 1929, a daughter, Mrs. Ella Chase died in 1924 and a son, Herbert, died in infancy.

Three half-sisters also survive her: Mrs. Emma Maxeiner of Kansas City; Mrs. Ella Knecht, or Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Lou Dole, of Toronto, Canada.

Mrs. Zimmerman was a member of the Harvel Christian church.

Editor's Note: Mis-spelled: Mary McCarty, and Frances and Anna Bunning.