Funeral service for Albert H. Zimmerman, 91, life-long Heil, ND area farmer will be on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. at the Hope Conservative Congregational Church in Elgin, ND. Rev. Bill Bradley will officiate and burial will follow at the Congregational Cemetery in Elgin. Visitations will be from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, April 10, 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. Monday, April 11 at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin and one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday morning. A family service will be held at 7:00 p.m. Monday evening at the Funeral Home in Elgin.


ALBERT HENRY ZIMMERMAN was born on July 10, 1913 at New Leipzig, ND to Henry and Katherina (Peitz) Zimmerman. He was baptized on August 12, 1913 and later confirmed in the Ebenezer Church in Old Leipzig on July 7, 1929. Albert attended Leipzig school district 14 and helped his family on the farm for many years until he met Bertha Weishaar. On February 5, 1939, they were united in marriage at the Johannestal Church, north of New Leipzig, ND. They began their life together on a farm they purchased together 8 miles northeast of Heil, ND. In 1944 they purchased land 6 miles north of Heil. They farmed and ranched together there until retiring in 1976. Albert and Bertha built a home in Elgin, ND and spent their retirement years there. Bertha Zimmerman passed away on March 3, 1996. Albert's failing health moved him into the Dacotah Hills on November 7, 2000. He later entered the Jacobson Memorial Care Center in Elgin, where he passed from this life on Thursday, April 7, 2005.


Grateful for having shared his life are his four sons and daughters-in-law, Melvin and Loretta Zimmerman, Puyallup, WA; Almore and Darline Zimmerman, Onida, SD; Ervin and Julianna Zimmerman, Bismarck, ND; Jim and Pat Zimmerman, Elgin, ND; daughter and son-in-law, Dorothy and Ron Anderson, Billings, MT; 15 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren; three siblings, Helen Zimmerman and Louise Laub, both of Bismarck, ND and Richard and Pearl Zimmerman, of Missoula, MT and sister-in-law, Hilda Zimmerman, of Elgin, ND.

Albert was preceded in death by his parents, his wife of 57 years, Bertha, one daughter in infancy, three siblings, Ted and Otto Zimmerman and Bertha Staiger, one grandchild Randy Zimmerman and one great granddaughter, Shanice Hill.