Timmons Family NMC Connections
Spring 2003

Roscoe C. "Doc" Timmons was the Hill County Sheriff for 44 years as well as a veterinarian. He and Clara Garske Timmons had three children: Lucia Leeds, now of Spokane, Washington; J. Worth Timmons, recently deceased; and Pauline Saenger, of Las Vegas, Nevada. Both Dr. and Mrs. Timmons died in 1972.

Lucia Timmons Leeds attended Northern Montana College for one year and then transferred to the college of St. Catherine's in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her husband, Dr. Robert H. Leeds, now deceased, also attended N.M.C. for two years and then transferred to Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Nebraska. During World War II, he was commissioned as an officer into the U.S. Navy and served as a flight surgeon in the South Pacific.

Pauline Timmons Saenger attended N.M.C. from 1937 to 1939 (in those years it was only a two year college) and then transferred to the University in Missoula. She married James R. Saenger of Texas in 1950. In World War II he served as a power turret specialist in the U. S. Air Force in Europe. Jim was the first newscaster and announcer/engineer for the radio station KOJM in Havre. He passed away in 1976.

J. Worth Timmons died on December 8, 2002 at the age of 84, in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Born in Havre, Montana on August 4, 1918, he was the son of Roscoe C. and Clara Timmons. He graduated from Havre High School in 1936 and attended Northern Montana College for three years from 1936 to 1939 where he was a star basketball player for the Northern Lights.

During World War II, he served in the Army Corps of Engineers as a Lieutenant and participated in the Battle of the Bulge in Germany. Following his military service, he became a project engineer for the Montana Highway Department in Shelby. In 1943, he married Florence McGuinn of Havre, who precede him in death in 2001. Survivors in addition to his sisters include three children: Jane Timmons Chapman of Jackson, Wyoming, John Timmons of Missoula, Montana, and Steven Timmons of Auburn, California; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
  

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