Bernice Zimmerman, 94, died March 3, 2016 at Faith Home in Wolf Point. She was born in Wolf Point, Montana, September 25, 1921. She was the fourth child of seven children born to Ernest Edward and Elsie Mattig Zimmerman.
She was raised north of Wolf Point and started school at five years of age and graduated from High School at sixteen. She attended college in Havre and began teaching when she was nineteen. She taught in Pershing School, Divide School, Culbertson, Valier, Nashua, and Wolf Point and remembered most of her students. She retired at sixty one to take care of her parents.
Bernice was a life-long member of the First Lutheran Church. She went on trips with friends, taking beautiful pictures, and traveled with Mrs. Berreth to southern Mexico to visit her sister, a missionary in Chiapis. Bernice went to all her nephews’ baseball games and watched the MLB games on TV. She loved to bowl and enjoyed her house and garden.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters, Laverne, Marjorie, Doris and Virginia and her brother, Richard. She is survived by one brother, Russell.