James F. Walz was a teacher and later a school superintendent. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War.

His father was of German and Irish descent, and his mother was entirely of Swedish descent. Of his German ancestors, half hailed from Kuppenheim in Baden in southwestern Germany, where the Walz family is traced to the late 1600s. His great-grandfather Sebastian Walz was born in Kuppenheim, Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1864. A quarter of his German ancestors hailed from Schermbeck in northwestern Germany. His remaining German ancestors were German-speaking people from Dettwiller and Haegen in Alsace (now in France).

Events

• Residence: Precinct 09, Cedar, Nebraska, United States - 1930
• Residence: Same Place - 1935
• Residence: Plainview, Pierce, Nebraska, United States - 1940
• Residence: Peru Township, Nemaha, Nebraska, United States - 5 April 1950

Sources

• Tim Walz Wikipedia Entry, (accessed August 6, 2024).
• The Obituary of Gerald "Jack" Reiman mentioned, among others, his late brother-in-law James Walz. The online obituary was published on the website of Brockhaus Funeral Home (link accessed August 6, 2024).
• United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JLR1-J62 : 10 January 2021), James Walz, Feb 1984; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing)
• Find-a-Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53852264/james-f-walz
• Marriage Information: Miss Darlene Rose Reiman, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Lawrence Reiman of Butte, and James Walz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Walz of Wayne, were married on Tuesday, August 9 at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic church, in Butte. Source: The Frontier (O'Neill, Nebraska), Thursday, August 25, 1955, volume 75, issue 17, page 12.
• WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walz-672
• Who is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate? - by Joseph Konig, Spectrum News, August 6, 2024. Link accessed August 7, 2024. Note: this article states that James died of lung cancer in 1984.
• Kranish, Michael. "Tim Walz's upbringing in rural Nebraska seemed idyllic. Then came tragedy." The Washington Post, published 24 August 2024. < link > Accessed 25 August 2024.
• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 7 2024, 0:08:14 UTC
• https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/06/politics/gallery/tim-walz/index....