He left Rugby, ND and was robbed and murdered, thrown from a hotel building in North Baltimore, he was traveling by train to Baltimore, Maryland to board a ship to return to Landau, Beresan, Odessa, South Russia. Leaving a daughter in Russia and a brother Michael Zimmerman and a sister Apolonia Miller in Brazil, ND and other siblings in Russia. His parents were Josef & Magdalena nee' Schmidt Zimmermann from Landau, Beresan, Odessa, South Russia.