Elizabeth J. BJ Zimmerman, 74, of East Earl, passed away peacefully at home, on February 11, 2025. She was born in Lancaster, PA to her late parents, Rae R. and Helen V. (Pierce) Simpson.

But in 1973, Duterte married Elizabeth Zimmerman, the mother of Vice President Sara Duterte, who claims to be a descendant one of the Jews who fled to the Philippines from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.