Timothy James Walz was born on April 6, 1964,[2] in West Point, Nebraska, at Memorial Hospital.[3] His mother, Darlene Rose Reiman, was a homemaker[4][5] and grew up on a farm.[6] His father, James Frederick Walz, was a teacher and school superintendent who served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War,[7][8] and had worked in the family's butcher shop as a child.[9] Tim is of German, Swedish, Luxembourgish, and Irish descent;[10] in 1867 his great-great-grandfather Sebastian Walz emigrated to the United States from Kuppenheim, Germany.[11] One of his grandmothers was Swedish American,[12] and one of his great-grandmothers was Irish American.[13] He was raised Catholic.[14