----Source: Greenwood Gleaner 8/7/1930

OBITUARY OF HAROLD ZIMMERMAN

Harold Edwin Reuben Zimmerman, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zimmerman of Eaton Center, Clark County, was born Nov. 30, 1904, at Reedsburg, Wis., where he also received Holy Baptism and spent his childhood years. He received his common school education at a country school near Reedsburg and at Eaton Center, where his parents had acquired a farm in March 1917. On March 24, 1918 at Reedsburg he became a communicant member of the Lutheran Church through confirmation.

After his confirmation he was employed on the home place and for about a year at the Kalkofen factory. Then for some time before his departure for the West he was local salesman for the Standard Oil Co.

About two years ago he left for the west, first working in Montana as a farmhand, thence going to Oregon, where he found employment in a lumber mill at Cottage Grove. He was apparently getting ahead in this work, having been promoted to a job with better pay, when suddenly on Saturday evening, July 26th at 9:00 he met his death in a collision with a parked truck while turning into a paved highway from a side street.

The remains arrived at Owen on Thursday eve of last week and funeral services were conducted on Friday at the home and at Trinity Lutheran Church, interment being made at the Greenwood Cemetery.

The departed reached the age of 25 years, 7 months and 26 days and is mourned by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zimmerman and these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Minnie Scheukat and Edward of North Freedom, Wis., Mrs. Clara Roloff and Albert, Jr. of Reedsburg, Wis., Mrs. Wm. Buchsteiner, Mrs. Douglas Ormond and Miss Grace of Greenwood and Town of Weston, William of Mirror Lake, Wis., and Mrs. E. Haglund of St. Paul, Minn.