Biography

Rhonda (Tucker) Zimmerman is a Project Member of the Southern Pioneers Project.

Rhonda (Tucker) Zimmerman is related to a US President.

Rhonda reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the November 2019 Sourcerers' Challenge

Rhonda (Tucker) Zimmerman is a descendant of a Mayflower Passenger.

Descendant of several Magna Carta Surety Barons.

Rhonda was born and raised in Indiana. Nicknamed Ronnie by her father, Jim Tucker, who was born in Indiana and her mother, Alice (Hamilton) Tucker who was born in Kentucky, she is stilled called that by her cousins. She was very much a tomboy growing up, climbing trees, playing with bugs, and playing sports. Rhonda attended public school in Indiana graduating 6th in her class.

She moved to Illinois for a job where she met her husband, Mark Zimmerman. She worked in retail management for 18 years before going back to school to get a degree in Elementary Education. After completing her 2nd degree, Rhonda worked at Peoria Public Schools first as, primarily, a science teacher then as a middle school interventionist. She became a volunteer for the Jr. Elite (ELITE K-8, https://eliteyouthoutreach.com/programs) at the school where she taught. Rhonda officially retired from teaching in May 2018, but went back part time as a certified tutor in the fall of 2018. She also joined the Service League of Peoria in the summer of 2018 where she's a volunteer at Methodist Hospital in Peoria, Illinois.

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Honors & Degrees

• National Honor Society in High School.
• Bachelors of Science in Criminology, Indiana State University.
• Bachelors of Science in Education (Summa Cum Laude), Illinois State University
• Masters in Middle School Math (Magna Cum Laude), Illinois State University.

Hobbies

Rhonda loves to cook, sew, read, and work on genealogy.

Wikitree Free Space Pages

Springdale Cemetery

Parkview Cemetery

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Sources

• Birth certificate-held by Rhonda Zimmerman.
• Marriage certificate -held by Rhonda Zimmerman.
• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Rhonda (Tucker) Zimmerman and her siblings Charlotte (Tucker) Freeman and Dara (Tucker) Crawford. Their most-recent common ancestors are their parents, Jim Tucker and Alice (Hamilton) Tucker. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Full Sibling, Sister 1, Shared DNA: 2,643 cM across 64 segments. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Full Sibling, Sister 2, Shared DNA: 2,340 cM across 69 segments
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Rhonda (Tucker) Zimmerman and her siblings Charlotte (Tucker) Freeman and Dara (Tucker) Crawford. Their most-recent common ancestors are their parents, Jim Tucker and Alice (Hamilton) Tucker. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Full Sibling, Sister 1, Shared DNA: 2,643 cM across 64 segments. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Full Sibling, Sister 2, Shared DNA: 2,340 cM across 69 segments

Notes

Sisters are both confirmed by DNA Ancestry.com

• sibling 1 - Full Sibling, Sister, Shared DNA: 2,643 cM across 64 segments
• sibling 2 - Full Sibling, Sister, Shared DNA: 2,340 cM across 69 segments