Obit: Diemer, T. E. (1891 - 1958)

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Surnames: Diemer, Schmalz, Myre

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 09 OCT 1958

Diemer, T. E. (11 APRIL 1891-07 OCT 1958)

The Rev, T. E. Diemer, 67, died Monday afternoon at his home of a heart attack. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Zion Lutheran Church, Stratford. Burial will be made at Loyal Cemetery. The body will lie in stste at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of service.

Rev. Diemer was born on April 11, 1891 at Woodville, Wis. and moved to Brownton, Minn., with his  parents as a small child. He attended St. Paul’s Luther College and Seminar from which he graduated in April 1914. He was ordained to the Lutheran Ministry that same month at St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Brownton, Minnesota. On May 3, 1914 he was installed as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Stratford. He also served at St. Peters at Fenwood until his retirement in Nov. 1953.

He was married to Elizabeth Schmalz oon August 27, 1914 at St. John’s American Lutheran Church, town of Wein, Marathon County.

He moved to Loyal in 1953 and was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Carl (Ethel) Myre, Loyal; four sons: Roland, Orlando, Florida; Lothar and Fredrick, Toledo, Ohio; and Rev. H. Karl Deimer of Fennimore.

Also surviving are ten grandchildren; four brothers: Rev. Herman Diemer, Summer, Iowa; Rev. George Diemer, Duluth, Minn.; and Rev. Adolph Diemer, Thiensville; and four sisters: Mrs. John Judt, Winnepeg, Canada; Mrs. P. B. Hack and Miss Ruth Diemer, Chicago, Ill.; and Mrs. Herman Unger, Canton, Ohio.