Obit: Zimmer, Janice (1938 - 2010)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

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Surnames: Zimmer, Colby, Erwin, Barton, Hoffman

----Source: The Loyal TRG ( Loyal, Clark County, Wis. 08 Sept. 2010)

Zimmer, Janice (05 OCT 1938-31 AUG 2010)

Janice L. Zimmer, 71, Greenwood, died on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, at the House of the Dove, Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m., on Saturday, Sept. 4, at Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood. Rev. Joseph Follmar officiated. Burial followed in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery.

Janice Leah Colby was born on Oct. 5, 1938, in Marshfield, the daughter of Raymond "Jack" and Margery L. (nee Erwin) Colby. She was raised on the family farm and received her education in the Greenwood area, graduating from Greenwood High School in 1956. Following high school, she attended technical school in Eau Claire for one year. She married Glenn R. Zimmer on Nov. 23, 1957, in Greenwood. She went to work for Clark Electric until 1962, and then was a homemaker and stay-at-home mother, raising her four children. In 1992, she went to work at the Neillsville Memorial Hospital as a nurses’ aide, where she worked until retiring in 2008. She had many interests, but especially loved spending time with her grandchildren and family, and enjoyed traveling with them. She was a dedicated correspondent with many people across the country, and a voracious reader of history and politics. She always loved horses and was a longtime member and treasurer of the Clark County Pleasure Riders. Her fondness for old movies and especially musicals was a constant theme, but she also appreciated newer films and was a devoted fan of Gerald Butler in recent years. She was an enthusiastic gardner and continued to plant her flower beds long after she should not have been doing so. Over the years, she also enjoyed sewing and needlecrafts. Those who knew her often were the beneficiaries of her love of cooking and baking. She always loved to chat with friends and strangers alike, and was always interested in the stories of others and helped them when she could. She put her compassion for others and desire to help to work at Neillsville Memorial Hospital, tending to patients and making them as comfortable as possible. She loved that work and continued at it long after she was diagnosed with cancer and only stopped when she was physically forced to do so.

She will be dearly missed by her children, Mark (fiancé Julie Lotto) Zimmer, Madison, Mary (Tim) Barton, Stevens Point, and Ann (Richard) Hofmann, Stevens Point; four grandchildren, Matthew and Emma Barton, Michael Zimmer, and Holden Hofmann; and one sister, Joan Gilles, Stevens Point.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Glenn , in 1974; and one son, Michael David Zimmer, also in 1974.

Online condolences may be expressed at www,cuddiefh.com.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood, assisted the family with arrangements.