Robert P. Schuster

SCHUSTER, HESSING, SPERFSLAGE

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Date: 12/3/2014 at 21:59:20

Dubuque Telegraph Herald - January 18, 2012

HOPKINTON, Iowa -- Robert P. Schuster, 83, of Hopkinton, died Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, at his home.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Worthington, with the Rev. Noah Diehm officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at Kramer Funeral Home, Dyersville, where a vigil service will be at 4 p.m.

Robert was born on Oct. 13, 1928, in Petersburg, son of Andrew and Louise (Hessing) Schuster. He married Isabel Sperfslage on Aug. 11, 1953, in Castle Grove; she preceded him in death in 1981.

He served in the Army in Okinawa, Japan, from 1953 to 1955, and returned home to begin his family and run his farm.

Surviving are his children, Peter, of Waterloo, Paul (Cathy), Robert and Ted (Renee), all of Hopkinton, Cynthia Schuster, of Parker, Colo., Lorraine Schuster and Amy Schuster, both of Cedar Falls; 12 grandchildren; a sister: Marjorie McNamara, of Rogers, Ark.; three sisters-in-law, Dolores Gassmann, of Iowa City, Eleanor Ryan, of Monticello, and Lila Mae Sperfslage, of Coggon.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Linda Schuster; brothers and sisters-in-law, Joe Sperfslage Jr., George Gassmann and Alice (Don) Shea.