Jaring timmerman biography of albert

Finding the land too rocky to farm, the Timmermans left after six months and resettled in Winnipeg. They lived modestly. There was no running water, so once a week Jaring's mother sent him to the Pritchard public baths. Hendrik worked as a custodian at a senior's home and then at the Grace Hospital, where his son would die nearly a century later.

The family was devout. Timmerman later recalled how he and his siblings sometimes couldn't worship at church because it was too full, so they would then play-act their own version of the service at home. He started working at 16 as an office boy. According to a story in the Salvationist magazine, he also eagerly volunteered to help elevator repair crews in the summer.

Timmerman told Salvationist. They were long days. He married inbecame a father and briefly lived in Wadena, Sask. After the war ended, he returned to Grain Insurance, eventually becoming company president before retiring in It was inwhen he was 78, that he got into competitive swimming. He was wintering in Arizona with his wife, Gladys, who noticed a newspaper item about the Senior Olympics.

He entered the metre freestyle and, to his surprise, won the gold medal. For the next quarter century, he would accumulate records and wins. Last January, he set two world records in a new category for swimmers aged toin the metre freestyle and metre backstroke events. He was predeceased by his first wife, Bessie, to whom he was married 46 years, and by his second wife, Gladys, who was with him for 29 years.

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