NORMAN LEIMER

JACKSON -- Funeral for Norman Leimer of Jackson will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church. The Rev. David Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery.

Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. today, and at the church Friday after 9 a.m.

Leimer, 86, died Tuesday, May 25, 1999, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Sept. 8, 1912, at Fruitland, son of Theodore and Bertha Pfieffer Leimer. He and Edith Kasten were married May 12, 1935, at Pocahontas.

Leimer attended school at Pocahontas. He lived and farmed at Old Appleton from 1935-79, and was active on the town board and other committees.

He moved to Jackson in 1979. He had worked for Oswold Brothers Construction Co. In addition to farming he was a carpenter in Cape Girardeau and Perry counties, retiring in 1976.

Leimer was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, and a former elder.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Richard Eugene Leimer of Jackson; four brothers, Melvin Leimer of Burlington, Iowa, Ervin Leimer of St. Louis, Tillman Leimer of Fruitland, Wilmer Leimer of Perryville; two sisters, Irma Kasten of Jackson, Nelda Ludwig of Pocahontas; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a twin sister.