Troy Daily News
15 June 1948

Lilbern J. Zimmerman Dies Suddenly Monday Evening -
Final Rites Thursday Afternoon

Lilbern J. Zimmerman, 55, 514 South Walnut Street, died at 6:15 p.m. Monday of a heart attack while working in his garden on the Mrs. John Boyle farm, R. R. 2, just east of Troy.

Services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Irvin Funeral home, Rev. Arthur C. Decker, pastor of the First Congregational Christian church of which he was a member, officiating. The burial will be in the family lot at Riverside cemetery. Friend s may call at the late residence after 7 p.m. Wednesday and at the funeral hour.

Mr. Zimmerman, an employee in the winding department of the Hobart Manufacturing company, has been suffering from a heart condition. He was born Feb. 27, 1983 in Pleasant Hill and was the son of the late Charles and Mary Lantz Zimmerman. Surviving are his wife, Maggie Buirley Zimmerman, to whom he was married in Troy on Jan. 10, 1917; two children, a son, Clarence and a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Acker, both of Troy; two brothers Ralph R. of Dayton and L. Vern of Troy; two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Shannahan of Detroit and Mrs. George Rademachir of Troy and two grandchildren.