The former Jill Ann Durall was born October 12, 1958, in Quincy, Illinois, the daughter of Paul and Judy Warning Durall. She graduated from Quincy High School in 1976, and attended William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri. She married Richard A. Zimmer on May 19, 1996, in Moline. She was the Arbitration Assistant of the 14th Judicial Circuit Arbitration Center in Rock Island, since July, 2002. She previously had multiple positions with the Rock Island County Circuit Clerk, concluding as Supervisor of Child Support.
Jill was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, Rocky Mountain National Park Association, and National Wildlife Federation. She loved anything with the outdoors, especially Colorado, and enjoyed gardening, animals, birds, especially hummingbirds, flowers, quilting, horses, and orchids. She loved her beloved standard poodles, Nina and Vicky.
Jill is survived by her husband, the Honorable Richard A. Zimmer; her parents, Judy and Paul Durall of Fowler, Illinois; aunts and uncles, Denning Warning of Ursa, Illinois, Helen Sue and Stanley Warning of Quincy, Jodi and Bradley Warning of Camp Point, Illinois, Patty Staff of St. Charles, Missouri, Judy Davis of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Carl Durall of Ursa, Illinois, and Donald Durall of Sterling, Illinois, and their families; sisters in law, Lenore Cowdery and her husband Doug of Hampton, Illinois, and Caroline McCormick of Winter Park, Florida; and nieces and nephews, Heather and Jim Gyngard, Sgt. Heidi and Darren Richardson, and Garrett and Sean McCormick. She was preceded in death by her grandparents.