JOHN ARCHIBALD STIMMLER

Born: April 17, 1917   Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota
Died: November 17, 1966   Arvada, Jefferson, Colorado
Buried: November 21, 1966    Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Denver, Colorado


Parents:
 
 
Marriage:
 
Military:
Service:
George Aloysius Stimmler
Julia M. Sakry
 
Fern Lucille Phillips

U.S. Army WWII
U.S. Naval Reserves
 

Children: Ronald John Nov. 30, 1939 † Mar. 8, 2016
  Thomas Gilbert Oct. 12, 1943  
  Sandra Jean Sept. 13, 1947  
       
Notes: Sunday morning, Oct. 4, 1919, a Ford touring car overturned opposite the Stimmler home, throwing out the
  occupants and severely injuring a child, who was taken to Dr. Gumper in Becker for treatment. They were westbound passengers and no one learned their names [The Clear Lake Times, 9 Oct 1919, p. 5, col. 2].
 
At the time of the January 31, 1920 federal census, John was 2 years old and living with his parents and 7 siblings on the family farm in Clear Lake township, Sherburne, Minnesota.
 
The Stimmler family moved to a farm about seven miles outside Clear Lake in the spring of 1927.
 
When John was 6 years old, his parents got him an ebony pony named Dimple, who used to belong to a circus trainer in her youth. She could jump through a hoop, shake hands and go over barrels. In 1930 she was shipped from Minnesota to his sister, Bess Bonderer's family home in Avalon, Missouri. The pony lived to be 41 years old and was ridden by three generations of youngsters. She won ribbons at shows, and as late as 1955 finished fourth in the through-the-barrel race at Ludlow Lions horse show, ridden by Tom Bonderer. When Dimple died in February 1959 at the age of 41, an obituary ran for her on the front page of The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune of Chillicothe, Missouri.
 
When a boy John lived with his sister Bess and her husband for a number of years after their parents died. He attended the Green school, near Avalon, Missouri.
 
John was 49 years old when he died at a hospital in Denver, Colorado. He and his wife had just left Chillicothe, Missouri two days earlier from visiting his sister Bess Bonderer. John was buried with full military honors at Fort Logan National Cemetery in plot Q1778 on November 21, 1966.

Ancestry: The Stimmler/Stimler Line
   
1920 Minnesota Census, Clear Lake, January 31, 1920

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