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Andrew Frederick Zimmerman Andy Zimmerman, 83, of Kent, OH, passed away peacefully March 22, 2008. He was born in 1924 to Henry and Anna Zimmerman in Raritan, NJ, where he grew up. Andy enlisted in the Navy after graduating from Somerville High School in 1942. He served as a Radioman, Second Class aboard LST-699, which was assigned to the Asia-Pacific Theater and participated in landing operations at Leyte in Nov. 1944, Lingayen Gulf in Jan. 1945 and Mindanao Islands in Apr. 1945. LST-699 earned 3 battle stars for WWII service. Andy was awarded a Victory Medal, American Theater Medal, Asiatic Pacific Medal with Two Stars and Philippine Liberation Ribbon with Two Stars. After WWII and an honorable discharge in 1946, Andy attended Hope College in Holland, MI where he was on the golf team, and met Dorothy Oldenburg whom he married in 1949 in Sheldrake, NY. He attended Northwestern U where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, and graduated in 1951 from Central College in Pella, IA. Andy lived in Trumansburg, NY from 1952 to 1967 where he avidly pursued his lifelong passions of hunting with father-in-law Dick Oldenburg, and golf. He hit the first hole in one on Hillendale's No. 7 hole. He also hit aces at Newman in Ithaca and at Fort Hill Course in Whitney Point, while playing on the Morse Chain team. Andy was a sales engineer and salesman, selling instrumentation products for Morse Chain and Pall Trinity Micro. In 1967, he moved to Kent, OH where he worked as a salesman for Taylor Instruments. Andy was a member of the Mogadore, OH VFW and the Kent, OH American Legion. He is survived by his sister, E. Jean Levine of Bound Brook, NJ, daughter and son-in-law Vickie and Don Farrell of Encinitas, CA, daughter Karen Legnini of Trumansburg, NY, daughter Diane Olden and son-in-law Dan Klein of Danby, NY, daughter Kristine Olden of San Francisco, CA, grandchildren Sarah Legnini of San Francisco and Seth Legnini of Berkeley, CA, and special friends Vicki Reed and Elaine Meyers of Kent, OH. His wishes were to be cremated and his ashes spread at sea, which the family will honor at a private service in San Diego. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations may be made to the American Diabetes Assoc. (RC 3/30/08)