HARLAN CHARLES SCHARA 1913-1981

ORTH, STREIN, SCHROEDER, SCHARA

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Date: 3/19/2005 at 12:32:14

Harlan Schara Rites Thursday

Funeral services for Harlan C. Schara, 67, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 23, 1981 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville. He died early Monday, July 20, 1981 at the Community Memorial Hospital.

Visitation at the Schutte Funeral Home will be today, Wednesday. Burial will be in the Postville Cemetery. Rev. Julius Peterson will officiate.

Harlan Charles Schara, son of Fred C. and Jennie L. (Schroeder) Schara, was born Sept. 23, 1913 near Postville. He received his education in the Postville school and served in the U. S. Army during World War II.

February 19, 1941 he was married to Evelyn Dickens. They were the parents of six children. They lived in the Postville area where he was known as a master carpenter. He was also a fine musician and an avid outdoorsman.

He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, a brother, LaVern J., and a granddaughter.

Surviving are four sons, Ronald, Minneapolis, Robert, Apple Valley, Minn., Richard, Rapid City, S. D., and Roger, Postville; two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Mary Jane) Orth, Riceville and DeAnn, Silverthorne, Colo.; nine grandchildren; three brothers, Ray, Postville, Kenneth and Charles, Austin, Minn. and a sister, Mrs. Carl (Verla) Strein, Waterloo.

Postville Herald - contributed by Mary Durr