Beckham County, OK - Obits: William F. Zemer, 1930
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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ZEMER, WILLIAM F.
(Apr 1930, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
William F. Zemer, 71, died at the family residence at 418 South Washington
street following a long illness which he contracted while an engineer in
Tela, Honduras.  Funeral arrangements are pending the receipt of word from
a son in Panama but services will probably be held Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock in the Grubitz & Son funeral parlors, it was announced today.
The Masonic lodge, No. 182, of this city, will conduct the services,
according to an announcement made Saturday.  Rev. J. A. Tracy, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, will read the rites.
Mr. Zemer was in Central America until about six months ago when doctors
advised him to return to the United States.  He has been here trying to
overcome the malady which set upon him while in Honduras but was unable to
regain his strength.  He succumbed after becoming weaker for several
weeks.
Born in Ohio on Feb. 12, 1859, Mr. Zemer spent many years in that region
getting his education and later experience in engineering which finally
took him to Central America.  He was a pioneer in that country, helping in
the opening of the railways into many sections of the territory.  The life
of the frontiersman, braving the many hardships of his craft singled him
out as one of the most enthusiastic engineers in the work.
Mr. Zemer was a member of Theodore Roosevelt lodge of the A.F. and A.M. at
New Orleans.  He was a member of the United Brotherhood of Railway
Engineers.  He had been affiliated with the Presbyterian church for a
number of years, making that church his preference.
Surviving Mr. Zemer are his widow and five children.  Four of the children
were at the bedside of their father at the time of his death.  They were: 
Z. B. Zemer, of Lobelville, Tenn.; LeRoy Zemer, of New Orleans; and Ora
and Vada Zemer, of this city.  A son, Emmett Zemer, lives in Panama.
Interment will be made in the Fairlawn cemetery and will be in charge of
the Masonic lodge.

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