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Contact Info
Home Town Collierville, TN
Last Address Collierville, TN
Date of Passing Mar 28, 2011
Location of Interment West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery - Memphis, Tennessee
PFC US ARMY, WORLD WAR II: JOHN LANIER "PAPA JOHN " RIMER, 88, of Collierville, died Monday, March 28, 2011 at his home. He was a veteran of the United States Army having served in WWII with the 509th parachute Infantry Battalion. He was born the son of Benjamin and Edna (Augusta) Rimer on November 1, 1922. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Virginia (Biggs) Rimer; his sons, Gary (Barbara) Rimer, of Memphis and Michael (Mary) Rimer, of Moscow, TN; 7 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild; and a host of other loving friends and extended family. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 31 at Faith Presbyterian Church, 8816 Poplar Pike, Germantown, TN with services beginning at 11 a.m. Interment will be private in the West Tennessee Veteran's Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Faith Presbyterian Church in Germantown. Arrangements have been entrusted to High Point Funeral Home & Crematorium (Published in The Commercial Appeal on March 31, 2011)
WWII - Africa Theater of Operations/Tunisia Campaign (1942-43)
From Month/Year
November / 1942
To Month/Year
May / 1943
Description (Tunisia Campaign 17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943) Having gained Algeria, the Allies quickly turned eastward, hoping to take Tunis and Bizerte before the Germans could send reinforcements into Tunisia. But the drive broke down short of the goal. In February 1943, after Rommel had been driven into Tunisia, the Axis took the offensive and pushed through Kasserine Pass before being stopped. With Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces in the battle, the Allies drove the enemy back into a pocket around Bizerte and Tunis, where Axis forces surrendered in May. Thus Tunisia became available for launching an attack on Sicily as a preliminary to an assault on Italy.
