{"id":1883,"date":"2015-07-24T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2015-07-24T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:25:04","slug":"charles-ziemer-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/charles-ziemer-39\/","title":{"rendered":"*Charles Ziemer &#8217;39"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px; border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/39_CharlesZiemer_D.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>*Charles W. &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Ziemer, age 99, of Minneapolis, died peacefully on the afternoon of July 4, 2014, surrounded by family and friends. Charlie grew up on a farm near Waltham, Minn., the youngest of six children, and received a B.A. from St. Olaf College, an M.A. in music from the University of Minnesota, and an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Nevada -Reno. As a young man, he enlisted in the Navy Reserve during WWII, and served as a Lieutenant Jr. Grade on the staff of 3rd fleet commander Admiral W. F. Halsey, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star medal and a Gold Star for meritorious service in the Pacific theater. Upon discharge in 1946, he embarked on a career teaching music in Minnesota schools, notably choir at Virginia High School, 1947-1954, and Richfield High School, 1954-1974, tutoring piano lessons, 1931-1985, and performing as an organist and choir director, notably Woodlake Lutheran Church, 1954-1971, and First Church Christ Science, 1972-2012. He will always be remembered for his amazing keyboard skills, and for sharing his love of classical music to thousands of students, parishioners, and friends for over 80 years. He was a loving father and devoted husband..<\/p>\n<p>Charlie was preceded in death by parents, John and Cora; brothers, Raymond, Harold, Gilbert, and Kenneth; sister, Florence; son, <strong>David Ziemer &#8217;66<\/strong>; and first wife, Connie. He is survived by loving wife, Delores; sons, <strong>Paul Ziemer &#8217;70<\/strong> and partner Gael, and <strong>James Ziemer &#8217;75<\/strong> and wife Rosa; daughter-in-law, Carol Ziemer; grandchildren, Daniel and wife Michelle, Christine and husband Stephen, Bradley and wife Cindy, Elizabeth and husband Jamie, Matthew, Emily, Theodore and wife Katie, Sasha, Christopher, and Sarah; and eight great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials are preferred to the American Diabetes Association or Park Nicollet Methodist Hospice program.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Charles W. &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Ziemer, age 99, of Minneapolis, died peacefully on the afternoon of July 4, 2014, surrounded by family and friends. Charlie grew up on a farm near Waltham, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-57","tag-obituary"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}