Thursday 28th March 2024

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Margaret C. “Maggie” Leimkuehler, age 80, of rural Gilliam, died Wednesday, June 23, 2021, at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia.

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 30, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Slater, with Fr. Tom Alber officiating. Burial will follow at Salem Evangelical Cemetery near Saline City, with Jason Hill, Chris Leimkuehler, Jerid Hill, Saria Leimkuehler, Noah Leimkuehler, and Jim Ed Peel serving as pallbearers. Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, at Weiker Funeral Home in Slater.

Memorials are suggested to St. Joseph Catholic Church or Salem Evangelical Church, in care of the funeral home.

Born August 23, 1940 near Slater, she was the daughter of the late Aloysius B. and Kathryn Hagedorn Gotmer. On May 30, 1959 in Nelson, she married Roland “Buddy” Leimkuehler, and he survives of the home.

Also surviving are two sons, Jimmy Leimkuehler and his wife Karen, and Bill Leimkuehler, all of Gilliam; a daughter, Tammy Hill and her husband Rick of Gilliam; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a brother, Jerrry Gotmer of Marshall; four sisters, Allyne Sanders of Slater, Joyce Stith of Camdenton, Janie Shaver of Marshall, and Patricia Nelson of Marshall; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Mason Imhoff; and a sister, Judy Fuchs.

Mrs. Leimkuehler was a lifelong member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Slater, and the Altar & Rosary Sodality. She was a 1958 graduate of Slater High School. She worked as a bus driver for the Orearville School District, before becoming the cook for the Slater Public School District, and later the Gilliam Public School District; retiring after over twenty years of service.