William Zimmerman Sr.

WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN SR.

Monticello

William Zimmerman Sr., 73, died Saturday, March 4, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, following a battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 10, at St. John Lutheran Church, rural Monticello, with interment in the St. John Cemetery. The Rev. Tim Eckert will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 until 7 p.m. Thursday at Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Survivors include his wife, Barbara; his son, Bill Jr. and wife Susie of Cedar Falls; three grandchildren, Blake, Sami and Skylar; his brother, Jim (Pat) Zimmerman, Monticello; and two sisters, Joan (Don) Feeney, Jacksboro, Tenn., and Edna (Dick) Engrav, Copperas Cove, Texas.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Marvin.

William George Zimmerman was born July 15, 1943, in Monticello, Iowa. He was the son of Carl and Elsie Reuter Zimmerman. William attended the Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs, where he graduated in 1963. He returned to Monticello, where he started working at Cuckler Buildings as a press operator. Although there were many changes in ownership of the company, he operated his press for 48 years, retiring in 2012. William and Barbara Kenney were married on Aug. 24, 1968, in Minneapolis, Minn. William was baptized at St. John Lutheran Church. He was one of the founding members of Word of God Lutheran Church for the Deaf in Cedar Rapids, where he was an elder, Bible school teacher and a lay leader. He had also been active in many leadership roles in the Midwest Region of the International Lutheran Deaf Association as well.