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Note: Find A Grave Memorial # 162657164 ------ Helen Witt Zimmerman: I taught for seven years at Lone Star Grade School, Dist. #64. It was approx. 1 1/4 miles west of Bison, KS. This was a stone building with an addition of a cloak room on the front. I met David Zimmerman in Burlington, IA on Aug. 1940 at the North American Baptist Church Conference. We married the next spring. David was living in New Kensington, PA when we married and we lived there after the wedding. Dave and I pastored churches in Saltsburg, PA; Kyle, TX; LaSalle, CO; Cathay, ND; Tyndall & Danzig, SD; and Creston, NE in 1968 until Dave's death on August 16,1974. ------ Published in four newspapers in Columbus, Leigh, Humphrey & Madison, NE in 2015. HELEN ZIMMERMAN TO CELEBRATE 100TH BIRTHDAY ON OCT. 17 TH Helen Zimmerman, Lincoln, NE, formerly of Creston & Columbus, NE, will celebrate her 100th birthday on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, with an open house from 2-4 p.m. in the Sheridan Room, at the Madonna Care Facility. Family and friends are invited to attend. A brief program will be presented at 3 p.m. Refreshments will be served. No gifts please. Cards may be sent to: Helen Zimmerman Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Room 423B 5401 South Street Lincoln, NE 68506 The open house is hosted by Helen�s daughters and sons. Helen was born to Louise & William Witt, Bison, KS, on October 10, 1915. Madonna has been Helen�s home for the past 11 years. ------ http://columbusnewsteam.com/obituaries/helen-zimmerman/ Columbus News Team, May 17, 2016 Helen Zimmerman, 100, of Lincoln, Nebraska, died Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, May 19 at 10:00 AM at the Madonna Chapel, 5401 South Street, Lincoln. Visitation will be on Wednesday from 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM at Butherus Maser Love Funeral Home, 4040 A Street, Lincoln. Interment will be in the Fairview Cemetery, Creston, Nebraska, on Thursday at 3:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorials are to be directed to the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Activities Center ------ http://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/zimmerman/article_bd6585b9-6f93-5f5b-8c70-5cd8257ead9d.html Lincoln Journal Star, May 17, 2016 Helen M. Zimmerman, 100, formerly of Creston & Columbus, passed away May 15, 2016. A memorial service will be 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 19, at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Chapel. Interment will be 3 p.m. in Creston Cemetery. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18, at Butherus, Maser and Love Funeral Home, 4040 A Street, Lincoln 68510. ------ http://www.bmlfh.com/obituary.php?id=3290 http://www.yankton.net/obituaries/article_2d5b90c8-1d73-11e6-a3fd-8748e859f186.html Yankton Press & Dakotan -- Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Helen Marie Zimmerman, 100, died Sunday, May 15, 2016 in Lincoln, NE. Visitation/viewing will be Wednesday, May 18 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Butherus, Maser & Love Funeral Home, 4040 A St., Lincoln, NE. Memorial service will be Thursday, May 19, at 10 a.m. in the Chapel at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, 5401 South St., Lincoln, NE. Interment will follow, at approximately 3 p.m. at Fairview Cemetery, Creston, NE. Helen Marie Witt was born October 10, 1915, at home, on the family farm near Bison, KS, to William and Louise Witt, and was the oldest of four children. She attended elementary and high school in Bison, graduating in 1933, and attended Fort Hays College, Hays, KS, for one year, earning a teaching certificate, and gained additional credit hours by attending several summer school courses. Helen taught at the Lone Star (country) School, near Bison for seven years. She married Rev. David Zimmerman on May 2, 1941, in a double wedding with her sister Ruth Witt, who married Howard Stude, at Bison�s First Baptist Church. As a minister�s wife, she was a homemaker and able assistant to her husband in church life in many churches, including Saltsburg, PA; Kyle, TX; LaSalle, CO; Cathay, ND; Tyndall & Danzig, SD; and, their final move, to Creston, NE in 1968. After her husband died in 1974, Helen continued to live in Creston until 1993, when she moved to an apartment in Columbus, NE. In 2004, due to mobility complications, Helen became a resident in the long-term care facility at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Lincoln, NE, where she lived until her death. Helen gathered friends, like many would gather armfuls of wild flowers. Likewise, she tended and cherished them, maintaining contact with some of the pupils she taught in grade school, many missionaries and church friends as well as extended family members, by visiting them, writing cards and letters, with telephone calls and, after moving to Madonna, via e-mail. She was never too busy to make time for friends. She enjoyed embroidery, crocheting, quilting and making denim rugs. She especially enjoyed making raised doughnuts and earned the flattering title of the "Doughnut Lady." Helen took piano lessons and learned to play the organ. She accompanied many singing groups, soloists and congregational singing. All her life she enjoyed board games, especially Rummikub and jigsaw puzzles. At Madonna, Helen took harmonica lessons, played in the Melodians Chime Choir and was a charter member of the Madonna Pink Hat Society. Helen lived her Christian faith every day. Her favorite scripture was Psalm 19:14. "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." She is survived by her children, eight grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Rev. David Zimmerman in 1974, and her daughter Eunice in 1981, her parents, siblings Ruth Witt Stude, Arthur Witt, and Ethel Witt Tombaugh.
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