Mary Timm

MARY ANN TIMM

Cedar Rapids

Mary Ann Timm, 74, died Dec. 22, 2016, at The Woodlands in The Meth-Wick Community.

A memorial Mass will be held at St. Matthew's Catholic Church at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30. Father Steve Garner will officiate. Burial will be at a later date in St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery-West Albany, rural Millville, Minn.

To some of us she was Mary, to others she was Annie, Mary Ann, Miss Timm, and even Sister for a few years as a young adult.

Mary was born Aug. 2, 1942, in beautiful Lake City, Minn. She graduated from Lourdes High in Rochester, Minn. She earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Edgewood College in Wisconsin and her master's degree in elementary math from Marycrest College in Davenport. Miss Timm taught at Squaw Creek for 17 years and Pierce Elementary for 16 more years. She retired from Pierce in 2000, and a year later she began working at The Meth-Wick Community. Mary was the administrative assistant until she retired again in 2013 and moved to The Meth-Wick Community.

Mary loved to read and she knew how to turn something ordinary into extraordinary – whether it was a bow or a luncheon. She knew how to go above and beyond and was an elaborate storyteller.

Miss Timm loved teaching and was proud of the hundreds of young students she was privileged to teach over the years.

Mary Ann is survived by many wonderful friends, who were her family, and meant the world to her; her loving cousins, as well as her siblings and their families.

Mary donated her body to research.

Memorials can be directed to The Meth-Wick Community or to Mercy Medical Center.

Teahen Funeral Home has been helping with arrangements.