Former Sitka City Administrator Adolph Edward “Tony” Zimmer II died July 26, 2015, in Johnstown, Pa. He was 66.
Adolph Edward “Tony” Zimmer II
Services were held at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church in Johnstown.
Tony was born July 21, 1949, in Oklahoma City, Okla., son of Adolph E. and Catherine (Dreyer) Zimmer.
Tony was a decorated Coast Guard helicopter pilot, including a Distinguished Flying Cross for his assistance in the rescue of 18 people in Cape May, N.J. He loved flying and watching his 6’5” frame fold into the cockpit was the subject of Coast Guard lore.
As the son of an Air Force officer and aviator, his childhood was spent all over the country and the world from Texas to France to San Francisco. While at the University of San Francisco, he met Carla, and the two married in 1974.
Their Coast Guard life took them to California, Florida, Oregon, New Jersey, Alabama, Alaska, D.C. and Pennsylvania, where he retired as a captain after serving as a Coast Guard Liaison to the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) in Johnstown.
While in Sitka, Tony served as city administrator for two years, 2001-02.
He also spent time in Antarctica and Greenland.
He retired from the Coast Guard in 2000 and has been involved with various businesses in Johnstown.
Tony was enormously proud of his children and delighted in spending time with his grandchildren. He was loved by many, cited as “an honorable professional, yet had a tremendous sense of humor.”
He was an avid reader, and was always quick with a joke and thoughtful with words of wisdom. He will be missed by many, most of all his family.
He was preceded in death by his parents and sisters Ann and Elizabeth.
He is survived by his loving wife, Carla (Sinerchio); children, Lisa, Chicago; David, married to Kristina, Seattle; Erik, Seattle; and Anthony, Philadelphia; grandchildren, Edelyn and Edgerly, Seattle; and siblings, Mary Lezotte, Sara Grove, Ellen Zimmer, Christopher Zimmer, Molly Zimmer, Carolyn MacFarland, Jennifer Duval, Emily Pearson and Joy Small, and their spouses and children.
