Miss Mathilda C. Geimer, 73, 0f 1343 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, formerly a
resident of Two Rivers and a World War I Army nurse, died Sunday afternoon at
Holy Family Hospital, Manitowoc, where she had been a patient six weeks.
Miss Geimer was born Aug. 29, 1889, in the Town of Gibson, daughter of the late
Jacob A. and Margaret Spang Geimer. When she was three years old the family
brought her to Two Rivers, where she attended St. Luke Parochial School. Her
late father for a number of years operated the Lake House at Two Rivers, now
the site of Plantico Drug Store. She took her nurse training at Holy Family
Hospital and completed it at Milwaukee Hospital. In 1918, she entered the Army
Nurses Corps and after her discharge two years later returned to Milwaukee where
she was engaged in hospital and private nursing duty, retiring eight years ago.
She was a member of the Delano Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary of
Milwaukee.
Surviving are two brothers, Roland, of California and C. J. (Neil) Geimer, of
Burr Oak, Mich., and five sisters, Mrs. George Paska, Mrs. David LaFond and Mrs.
Fred Beth of Two Rivers, Mrs. Joseph Bunker, of Villa Park, Ill., and Sister M.
Imelda, of Monroe, Wis.
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 14, 1963.
Miss Mathilda C. Geimer, 73, 0f 1343 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, formerly a
resident of Two Rivers and a World War I Army nurse, died Sunday afternoon at
Holy Family Hospital, Manitowoc, where she had been a patient six weeks.
Miss Geimer was born Aug. 29, 1889, in the Town of Gibson, daughter of the late
Jacob A. and Margaret Spang Geimer. When she was three years old the family
brought her to Two Rivers, where she attended St. Luke Parochial School. Her
late father for a number of years operated the Lake House at Two Rivers, now
the site of Plantico Drug Store. She took her nurse training at Holy Family
Hospital and completed it at Milwaukee Hospital. In 1918, she entered the Army
Nurses Corps and after her discharge two years later returned to Milwaukee where
she was engaged in hospital and private nursing duty, retiring eight years ago.
She was a member of the Delano Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary of
Milwaukee.
Surviving are two brothers, Roland, of California and C. J. (Neil) Geimer, of
Burr Oak, Mich., and five sisters, Mrs. George Paska, Mrs. David LaFond and Mrs.
Fred Beth of Two Rivers, Mrs. Joseph Bunker, of Villa Park, Ill., and Sister M.
Imelda, of Monroe, Wis.
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 14, 1963.
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