Harold J. Zimmerman, son of the late John Ernest Zimmerman and Nora Ethel McGowan Zimmerman was born in Bernie, Missouri on September 28, 1928 and departed this life at his residence in Bernie, Missouri on May 19, 2015 at the age of 86.

Mr. Zimmerman was a farmer and love to play music.   Harold & the Boys played at the Nutrition Center in Dexter, Missouri weekly; at Nursing Homes, His home Church, of Sunnyvale General Baptist Church of Rural Malden, Missouri and Revival’s all across the heartland.

He was united in marriage to Eva Nell Allen in Malden, Missouri on April 3, 1946.  She survives in their home in Bernie.

Other survivors include, two sons, Harold Dewayne Zimmerman of Lexington, Tennessee and Lanny Bruce Zimmerman of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; by one daughter, Janice Annette Fadler of Bernie, Missouri; by one sister Geraldine Blackman Sturges of Campbell, Missouri; by ten grandchildren, twenty eight great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren; also by other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death other than by his parents, by four brothers, Hershel Zimmerman, Melvin Zimmerman, Howard Zimmerman and Lloyd Zimmerman; by three sisters, Pearl Mickey, Dimple Miller and Marjorie Zimmerman.

Friends may call at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on Thursday Evening, May 21, 2015  from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M.

Funeral Services will be conducted in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie on May 22, 2015 starting at 11:00 A.M. with Rev. James Hamlett officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Bernie Cemetery.  Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements.