Robert L. Schultz - 1916-1990

SCHULTZ, LINDERBAUM, NOACK, LENTH, ELLICKSON

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 7/19/2011 at 17:12:36

SOURCE: Postville, Iowa POSTVILLE HERALD, May 9, 1990
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Robert L. Schultz of Postville, Iowa were held Tuesday, May 8, 2 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa with Rev. Julius Peterson officiating. Schutte Funeral Service of Postville, Iowa was in charge of the arrangements. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery. Casket bearers were Donald Enyart, Hartley Enyart, Leonard Althouse, Norman Schultz, Jr. Richard Schultz, and Eugene Schultz.

Robert Ludwig Schultz, son of Henry and Louise (Linderbaum) Schultz, was born January 29, 1916 at Waukon, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed in St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa. He received his education in the Bloomfield School No. 7. On February 19, 1946 he married Marjorie Noack at Postville, Iowa. They had two children. As a young child, Robert had moved with his family to their farm in Bloomfield Township, in Winneshiek County, Iowa. He lived there until 1975 when he retired and they moved to their present home in Postville, Iowa. Robert was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran Church and had also served as a member of the Pleasant Ridge Telephone Board and the Winneshiek Poultry and Egg Board.

He died Saturday, May 5, 1990 in the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon, Iowa. He is preceded in death by his parents and his step-father, Harry Lenth.

Robert is survived by his wife, Marjorie; a son, Alan Schultz of Postville, Iowa, a daughter, Elizabeth Ellickson of LaCrosse, Wisconsin; 2 grandchildren, Lee Ellickson, Jr. of Decorah, Iowa and Lynn Ellickson of LaCrosse, Wisconsin; a brother Norman H.(Gertrude) Schultz of Castalia, Iowa and many nieces and nephews.