Althea Jane Zimmerman
1927 - 2025
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Althea Jane Pankratz Zimmerman was born February 20th, 1927 in a farm house near Durham, Kansas. Her parents were Abraham and Minnie Pankratz. She passed from this world on November 5th, 2025 at the age of 98.
She was a prairie woman who grew up amid wheat fields, strength by faith, hard times, and raised on the Christian virtues of God and family. It was a simple commitment to the things that matter that guided her choices through life. She embraced and modeled the need for hard work and sacrifice, not the right for entitlement. The wealth she passed on to her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren is the imperishable kind: love, devotion, integrity, and faith in God.
Althea was a child of the depression. She was a seamstress and over the course of her entire life she made clothes for herself and her family. She often enjoyed sitting quietly while working on needlework projects. She loved to cook and bake. She began her education at the age of 5 in a 1 room school house. After graduating high school in 1944, there was a shortage of teachers due to World War II. She was offered a teaching job. She attended Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas for one summer and received a temporary teaching certificate. She taught 2 years in a one room country school house.
In 1946 she married Raymond Zimmerman. This marriage was blessed with seven children. They lived on a farm near Durham, Kansas until 1961 when they moved near Appleton City, Missouri. They moved again in 1968 to a farm near Weaubleau, Missouri where she lived for the rest of her life.
She was a member of First Baptist Church of Weaubleau. She enjoyed teaching Sunday School and working with children. She was active in WMU.
She was preceded in death by her parents, 5 sisters, 1 brother, her husband Raymond, and son Jay. She is survived by 6 children: Dianne Dollar of West Monroe, Louisiana, Connie Bruce (Mike) of Nevada, Missouri, Beth Platt (Mike) of Nixa, Missouri, Lee Zimmerman (Judy) of Springfield, Missouri, Sam Zimmerman of Weaubleau, Missouri, and Renee Markey (Darren) of Allendale, Michigan. Also eleven grandchildren, sixteen great grandchildren, five great great grandchildren, and last, but not least her cat Blackie.
The following was found while going through some of her journal writings since her passing:
We are reminded that each day from God is a gift. The past is gone, and regret is futile. Tomorrow is not promised to us so our plans may never happen, but we have today. Let us resolve to live fully, love much and trust in the Lord.
In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to CMH Hospice services of Bolivar.
She was a prairie woman who grew up amid wheat fields, strength by faith, hard times, and raised on the Christian virtues of God and family. It was a simple commitment to the things that matter that guided her choices through life. She embraced and modeled the need for hard work and sacrifice, not the right for entitlement. The wealth she passed on to her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren is the imperishable kind: love, devotion, integrity, and faith in God.
Althea was a child of the depression. She was a seamstress and over the course of her entire life she made clothes for herself and her family. She often enjoyed sitting quietly while working on needlework projects. She loved to cook and bake. She began her education at the age of 5 in a 1 room school house. After graduating high school in 1944, there was a shortage of teachers due to World War II. She was offered a teaching job. She attended Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas for one summer and received a temporary teaching certificate. She taught 2 years in a one room country school house.
In 1946 she married Raymond Zimmerman. This marriage was blessed with seven children. They lived on a farm near Durham, Kansas until 1961 when they moved near Appleton City, Missouri. They moved again in 1968 to a farm near Weaubleau, Missouri where she lived for the rest of her life.
She was a member of First Baptist Church of Weaubleau. She enjoyed teaching Sunday School and working with children. She was active in WMU.
She was preceded in death by her parents, 5 sisters, 1 brother, her husband Raymond, and son Jay. She is survived by 6 children: Dianne Dollar of West Monroe, Louisiana, Connie Bruce (Mike) of Nevada, Missouri, Beth Platt (Mike) of Nixa, Missouri, Lee Zimmerman (Judy) of Springfield, Missouri, Sam Zimmerman of Weaubleau, Missouri, and Renee Markey (Darren) of Allendale, Michigan. Also eleven grandchildren, sixteen great grandchildren, five great great grandchildren, and last, but not least her cat Blackie.
The following was found while going through some of her journal writings since her passing:
We are reminded that each day from God is a gift. The past is gone, and regret is futile. Tomorrow is not promised to us so our plans may never happen, but we have today. Let us resolve to live fully, love much and trust in the Lord.
In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to CMH Hospice services of Bolivar.
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