Anna Margaret Sanders Zimmerman, daughter of Sam Edd and Bertha Hunt Sanders, was born February 5, 1930 in Indianapolis, IN, and died November 16, 2021 after a short illness, in Dallas, TX, where she had lived for over fifty years.

After early years in Campbellsville, KY and high school graduation at 15 in Louisville, KY, followed by graduation from Campbellsville College and Western Kentucky State College, in 1948 she began teaching in Shepherdsville, KY, where she met James R. Zimmerman. Marrying him at the end of 1950, she later joined him in Germany, where she taught in U.S. Army schools in Stuttgart and Mannheim, and where their daughter Joann was born. Upon their return to Kentucky and civilian life, she continued her career as a fourth-grade teacher, first for fourteen years at Mary Todd Elementary in Lexington, during which time she earned a M.Ed. from the University of Kentucky, and then in Texas for over twenty years at Spring Creek Elementary in the Richardson Independent School District.

Always a reader, she was involved in many book-related activities, from Great Books to local book clubs, play-reading groups, and Great Decisions. For decades, she was a competitive fencer, in Lexington and Dallas. She was a founding member of the Richardson Unitarian Universalist Church, and was a long-term volunteer for Network of Community Ministries.

Predeceased by her husband, she is survived by her daughter Joann Zimmerman and her son-in-law Charles Spurgeon, of Austin, as well as by devoted and loving friends including Arlton White and Grace Morrison. By her request, there will be no services or memorials.