Tom Rimmer
Page by Bob Leathers
Rocky Mt News. Dec. 6, 1954 (Gert Milliken from Gary Milliken)
Then there's Tom Rimmer, still a young strong man after 36 years in the Hanna mines, with two youngsters, Don, 17, and Mike 7, Tom's been both lucky and unlucky. For half of his years in mines, he's been a foreman. Thus, he's ineligible for the pension. On the luck side, he's one of nine men retained by the company to clean up its houses and do guard work for the company property. He expects that to end soon. "We'll have to go somewhere else," he said. "I have to make a living. But I'll stay on here at least until next spring when Don gets out of high school. As for mining, well, there's nothing for a man of my age anywhere else." (Rocky Mt News. Dec. 6, 1954)
Thomas George Rimmer was born August 14, 1905 in Trinidad, Colorado. Tom married Annie Meekin in Denver, Colorado on Dec. 23, 1932. He was living in Hanna, Wyoming in 1940 and 1950 where he registered for the World War II draft. He was a Unit Foreman for the Union Pacific Coal Company in Hanna. He died March 1980 in Lakewood, Colorado and was buried in the Mount Olivet Catholic cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. (Ancestry)
Annie Rimmer was born Nov. 26, 1909 in Hanna, Wyoming. She died July 1986 and was buried with her husband Tom in Colorado.
Annie Rimmer was born Nov. 26, 1909 in Hanna, Wyoming. She died July 1986 and was buried with her husband Tom in Colorado.