In Memory
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F. Jay Nimtz
Dec. 1, 1915-Dec. 6, 1990
SOUTH BEND - Services for F. Jay Nimtz, 75, of Riverside Drive, and formerly of 918 N. Adams St., who died at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Hospital after an illness, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church. Entombment will be in Riverview Mausoleum. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St., where the Council Oak Lodge 745 will conduct services at 6 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church, the Salvation Army or the Northern Indiana Council of Boy Scouts.
Mr. Nimtz, who was Third District congressman from 1956 to 1958, was an attorney and counselor. He was born Dec. 1, 1915, in South Bend, where he was a lifetime area resident.
On Aug. 22, 1958, in South Bend, he married Leatha Talbot. She died Sept. 19, 1982.
On May 12, 1984, in Mishawaka, he married Elinor Dillavou Vesey, who survives. Also surviving are a brother, Herbert of Cincinnati, Ohio; a niece, Lois Bremer of Pennsylvania; and a nephew, Roderick L. Nimtz of Garretsville, Ohio.
He was a member of Council Oak Lodge 745.
Article from 08 Dec 1990 The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN)
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US Congressman. Born in South Bend, Indiana, he graduated from Indiana University in 1938, from the same university law school in 1940, was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in South Bend, Indiana. With the advent of World War II, he was inducted into the US Army in 1941, attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, serving in England, France and Germany, until 1947. Returning home, he served as a Colonel in the US Army Reserves, was member of board of directors for the Saint Joseph County Department of Public Welfare, as prosecutor of Saint Joseph County, Indiana and as South Bend City Judge. In 1957, he was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Congress, serving until 1959. After his term, he resumed the practice of law, was a member of Indiana Air Pollution Control Board, (1979-86) and Indiana Environmental Management Board, (1981-86). At the time of his death, he was the president of the South Bend Redevelopment Commission.
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Sources: Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com and FindAGrave.com
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